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Recent Examples of deadlocked
But the jury remained deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
The next Senate vote to fund the government is scheduled for Tuesday, though Congress appears to remain deadlocked.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
The government shutdown still has no clear endpoint in sight as lawmakers remain deadlocked entering the weekend.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
The retrial ended in a mistrial after a juror read media accounts of the case, and a second retrial in June 2023 ended in a deadlocked jury, according to the district attorney.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Lawmakers remain deadlocked over spending priorities, particularly over healthcare subsidies and federal budget cuts.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
The deadlocked charge and enhancement were set for a retrial on July 15, but the prosecution and defense reached an agreement ahead of the trial, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Delegates had been seeking a breakthrough in the deadlocked United Nations talks in Geneva, but states pushing for an ambitious treaty said that the latest text released in the early hours of Friday failed to meet their expectations.
—Reuters, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
The next Senate vote to fund the government is scheduled for Tuesday, though Congress appears to remain deadlocked.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
The government shutdown still has no clear endpoint in sight as lawmakers remain deadlocked entering the weekend.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
The retrial ended in a mistrial after a juror read media accounts of the case, and a second retrial in June 2023 ended in a deadlocked jury, according to the district attorney.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Lawmakers remain deadlocked over spending priorities, particularly over healthcare subsidies and federal budget cuts.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
The deadlocked charge and enhancement were set for a retrial on July 15, but the prosecution and defense reached an agreement ahead of the trial, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Delegates had been seeking a breakthrough in the deadlocked United Nations talks in Geneva, but states pushing for an ambitious treaty said that the latest text released in the early hours of Friday failed to meet their expectations.
—Reuters, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadlocked
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Louisiana says law is 'unworkable and unconstitutional' Louisiana, which months ago defended the map legislators drew to include two majority-Black districts, now rejects it.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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So, yes, as unworkable as this plan might seem for the Palestinian group, a Hamas assent is entirely plausible.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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That said, while each companion’s abilities bring something to the table, they get downed by enemies a lot, which renders their abilities unusable until they can be revived.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Photos taken immediately after the carpet removal show that the classroom was left in unusable condition, with a portion of the carpet remaining attached to the floor.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Quarterback Geno Smith was highly ineffective, passing for just 67 yards on 10 completions, while the Vegas run game mustered just 25 yards on 11 carries.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Matvei Michkov has just one goal coming late in the Flyers’ loss to the Jets on Thursday, but was once again benched for the second half of the third period after too many ineffective shifts and careless plays with the puck.—
Kevin Kurz,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But to borrow Manidis’s framework, the drive to create such a tool conflates useless toil with meaningful labor.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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The rules of grammar were useless now, and never truly rules.—
Sam Lipsyte,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Movies like Eddington and The Mastermind also render their white male protagonists as ill-prepared and ineffectual numbskulls incapable of confronting their era’s racial and social politics.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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As Florida has become increasingly dominated by Republicans, the state Democratic Party has been weakened by infighting and largely ineffectual in elections.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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An undisciplined, unproductive outing against the Jets in London at least momentarily provided reason to hit the pause button.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 2025
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Very cold temperatures, heavy snow or ice, pests, and diseases can leave you with damaged or unproductive plants the next year.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Oct. 2025
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Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.—
Elie Dolgin,
Discover Magazine,
26 Apr. 2023
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“Deadlocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadlocked. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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