traffic jam
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"I've been travelling for three hours... to get to work," said Tetiana Osypenko, a 49-year-old seamstress whose bus was stuck in a traffic jam.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Car radios were still uncommon, but one afternoon, the airborne commander spent 20 minutes chewing out a Sunday driver he saw weaving and dodging through a traffic jam in Queens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“We’re going to see a traffic jam of patch releases and system downtimes as companies try to apply these patches.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
"But we don't yet know whether the action that starts the ridge just isn't happening or whether the traffic jam afterward isn't happening," he said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
Anatoli had left the summit around 2:00 p.m. and quickly became entangled in the traffic jam at the Hillary Step.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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