standoff
Example Sentences
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The discovery led to an hours-long standoff between police and a suspect found inside the home who was detained while wearing a dark suit, tie, sunglasses and fedora.
From Los Angeles Times
That standoff could revive a healthy tool in D.C.: the nearly-forgotten “conference committee.”
The prospect of a longer-term standoff has replaced initial hopes of a swift resolution, leaving markets to grapple with an increasingly clouded outlook.
“We had a standoff for about a minute,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead it is an investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell that has created a procedural standoff inside the Senate Banking Committee.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
