- present tense form of jam (3rd person singular).
jams
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Adding a restroom to Lake Hollywood Park might help, but it won’t fix the traffic jams that make her anxious about fire access.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
But the scheme has proved controversial among residents worried about traffic jams in neighbouring areas as well as among disability rights activists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
LA local news stations regularly break into live programming to broadcast high-speed police pursuits from the air, fly over wildfires and show accidents, protests, and holiday traffic jams in often unscripted, real-time aerials.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
I had thought of using the Multistrada to lane-split through the inevitable traffic jams during Monterey Car Week, held earlier this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
"We get bear jams. We get bison jams. We get wolf jams."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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