impasse

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Brent prices recently near $120 a barrel reflect the impasse over the Strait of Hormuz, but not yet a “structural erosion of the world’s oil consumption,” said Julia Khandoshko, CEO at European broker Mind Money.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Student Shahin Nampoor was fed up with mounting costs and varying prices, not to mention the current impasse in bringing the war to a definitive end.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Essentially the Bank was trying to provide detail around some of the "ifs" and "maybes" to manage expectations of what outcomes are plausible if the Gulf impasse lasts several months.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

After contract talks hit an impasse in February, Nichols reached out to Arias and Myart-Cruz to share research and strategy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

But the diary notation that most tantalized Dewey was unrelated to the Clutter-Rupp, Methodist-Catholic impasse.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote