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gridlock

[grid-lok] / ˈgrɪdˌlɒk /


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Now they, too, are concerned about the potential for gridlock.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Demonstrators, many organising online outside of formal representative bodies, have also used convoys on motorways to snarl traffic and tractors to gridlock central Dublin on occasions.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Radio communications can be badly impacted with GPS systems lost or disrupted for many days - so your car sat-nav could stop working, creating gridlock in cities.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Ross’s partnership with Archer Aviation is one of his efforts to address an emerging problem related to South Florida’s rapid growth: gridlock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Carriages surrounded newsboys on lower Broad Street to the point that the street was in gridlock as people waited for the release of the second edition.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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