impasse
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Last month the Commerce Department blocked Anthropic from selling its state-of-the-art models abroad owing to national security concerns and it took weeks of wrangling to resolve this impasse.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026
Mexico's economy secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, confirmed the impasse but said there were no insurmountable differences to resolve.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
Jurors first indicated that they were at an impasse on Thursday afternoon, after deliberating for more than 13 hours.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
Workers at the American Axle DCH -1.92%decrease; red down pointing triangle plant in Three Rivers, Mich. are at an impasse with the company over a new labor contract.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
By February 1922, nine months after the murders of Whitehorn and Anna Brown, the investigations into the cases seemed to have reached a permanent impasse.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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