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deadlocked

adjective as in neck-and-neck

adjective as in tied

Strong matches

Weak match

adverb as in nip and tuck

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Example Sentences

He sent them back to the jury room, but after an hour he accepted they were deadlocked and declared a mistrial.

Skoller relates how lucky he was for a hung jury—the final, deadlocked vote was eleven to one, for acquittal.

Talks are deadlocked and the government has cracked down violently on the demonstrators.

“I feel very positive,” he told reporters as he emerged from the deadlocked meeting with Abbas.

And since then, peace efforts have been deadlocked while the situation on the ground has deteriorated.

Each side stood fast on its own principles and the arbitration committees regularly became deadlocked.

The United States had always been disposed to submit to arbitration questions which seemed deadlocked.

But finally the effort was given up, and the two armies faced each other across the Aisne deadlocked.

This also was a failure, and the two armies finally became deadlocked along the line of the Bzura and the Rawka Rivers.

With the good government which followed these changes a deadlocked Congress showed no great desire to interfere.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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