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as in jam
a crowded mass (as of cars) that impedes or blocks movement
the presence of an ambulance on the side of the highway created a logjam of rubberneckers who just had to have a look
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as in halt
a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give in
efforts to break the logjam in the talks between union and management
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Recent Examples of logjam
Instead, promote ideation sessions for the whole team, fed by mechanisms similar to suggestion boxes, to avoid knowledge-hoarding and logjams.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Robinson was a standout special teams player at Alabama, where he was stuck in a logjam defensively behind first-round picks Will Anderson (2023) and Dallas Turner (2024).
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The House is scrambling to overcome a logjam with fiscal hawks in the Freedom Caucus.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 21 May 2025
While there does not appear to be a single reason the lawsuits are caught up in a legal logjam, there is plenty of finger-pointing about who is to blame.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Robinson was a standout special teams player at Alabama, where he was stuck in a logjam defensively behind first-round picks Will Anderson (2023) and Dallas Turner (2024).
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The House is scrambling to overcome a logjam with fiscal hawks in the Freedom Caucus.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 21 May 2025
While there does not appear to be a single reason the lawsuits are caught up in a legal logjam, there is plenty of finger-pointing about who is to blame.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for logjam
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And the jam—of course, the jam: the product As ever is perhaps most known for is back, but not in the raspberry flavor that was sold in April.—
Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Products in As ever’s first ever drop included flower sprinkles, cookies, jam and more.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Loyalty is hard to maintain when authenticity falters and innovation halts.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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The Tatum injury sent Boston’s dynastic rise into a screeching halt.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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Ukraine has offered an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and a meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin to break the deadlock.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2025
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History shows that conclaves have ranged from a matter of hours to nearly three years, shaped by intrigue, deadlock, and even popular revolt.—
Dan Cody,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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These bottlenecks are not down to a lack of ambition but rather structural weaknesses, including lack of regulatory certainty, underdeveloped infrastructure, and crucially a lack of offtake agreements to guarantee long-term market demand.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Oil shock—or maybe not Iran has the ability to close the Strait of Hormuz, the bottleneck shipping channel in the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all the world’s oil moves.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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Republicans have repeatedly voiced frustrations with the judiciary when rulings have gone against the Trump administration, creating legal gridlock and slowing the administration's ability to enact a number of new policies and initiatives, such as Trump's mass deportations.—
Andrew Stanton
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Vasquez, often a Johnson critic who recently became chair of the aldermanic Latino Caucus, took part last fall in a small, informal group that sought to steer the city’s troubled budget amid gridlock.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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But the talks have been at an impasse, as competing proposals have created a rift between the three states in the river’s lower basin — California, Arizona and Nevada — and the four states in the river’s upper basin — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
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The jury of six men and six women declared themselves at an impasse after multiple days of deliberation, unable to reach a unanimous verdict on all three charges.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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“Logjam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logjam. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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