How to Use impasse in a Sentence
impasse
noun- She had reached an impasse in her career.
- An arbitrator was called in to break the impasse.
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Which means there’s no end in sight to the GOP’s impasse.
— Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023 -
The two countries are now seeking a way around the impasse.
— Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023 -
And for the past year or so it was always shadowed with the impasse over kids.
— Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023 -
The impasse over this issue ran right up to the deadline.
— Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022 -
The longer the impasse lingers, the greater the risk that moderate Senate Democrats will get cold feet.
— Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021 -
But the city did not budge, and the police union did not come around, leading to an impasse.
— David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2021 -
Sources say the impasse stems from the fact that there were two teams that worked on the movie at different times.
— Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023 -
That was good enough at the time, the museum has said, and the two sides remain at an impasse.
— Sean Elder, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2023 -
Some have floated the prospects of Democrats intervening in the melee to end the impasse.
— Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 5 Jan. 2023 -
At the time, the nation seemed to be at an unconscionable impasse.
— Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022 -
The current contract was inked in April 2021 after a year-and-a-half impasse.
— oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2022 -
At this impasse, some of the group flew back to the United States, some headed to Argentina.
— Francesca Street, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023 -
That impasse is forcing Johnson to reach across the aisle to keep the government open.
— Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023 -
That would allow the House to reopen after a two-week impasse.
— WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023 -
Back in 2011, the debt limit impasse cost the nation its AAA rating.
— Libby Cathey, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2023 -
The dispute seemed to arrive at something of an impasse.
— Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 26 July 2023 -
This impasse held up the adoption of the meeting agenda until the eve of the final day of talks on Thursday.
— Bhasker Tripathi, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023 -
This isn't the first time school has been canceled over an impasse between the teachers' union and Lightfoot.
— Chris Boyette, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022 -
Qatar says cease-fire talks are nearing an impasse, and other news.
— Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 14 May 2024 -
At this point, breaking out of the impasse might not be possible without a bit of chaos.
— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024 -
During the last shutdown, the record-long impasse that began in late 2018, stocks didn’t just survive.
— Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023 -
Just under the surface, though, is a nation at an impasse.
— Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 24 July 2024 -
McCarthy’s allies and critics have huddled on the House floor to hash out the disconnect and find a way to break the impasse.
— Lisa Hagan, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023 -
For a breath, both players stood at an impasse, wondering what to do next.
— Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023 -
Saquon Barkley and the New York Giants remain at an impasse after a key deadline.
— Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023 -
The financial strife stretches beyond the workers and studios at the center of the impasse.
— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The directors and the CEO had reached an impasse over the latter’s plan to take the company private; still, resigning en masse is an unheard-of step for a startup board.
— Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The diplomat noted that Qatar may resume its role if both sides reach an impasse and show genuine intent to negotiate.
— Keir Simmons, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
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