deadlocked

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Adjective
  • Critics say the plan — which Trump says would involve relocating Palestinians to Egypt, Jordan or elsewhere — is unworkable and would amount to the ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinians.
    Zachary Basu, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Official portraits of Donald Trump, JD Vance are released That will eventually render the app unworkable, the Justice Department has said in court filings.
    Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Others have noted all but unusable battery life on their phones, as seen on subreddit threads and blog summaries.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Dry and Cook Your Ingredients Your food and herbs will slowly degrade, and eventually become unusable.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Finally, decades of strict criminal responses to drug use have not only proven to be largely ineffective but also dramatically unfair.
    Michael Abrams, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Some of them ended up being very effective (Anthony DeSclafani, Wood), and some of them were ineffective (Aaron Sanchez, Scott Kazmir).
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the Milky Way’s galactic magnetic field, the force is so weak that a standard compass would be virtually useless.
    Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Several pharmacists in São Paulo repeatedly stressed that just a few hours at room temperature renders the medications useless.
    Flávia Milhorance, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The students’ stunning reaction shortly after the shooting, refusing to succumb to their grief and calling out ineffectual politicians, captured the nation while also drawing backlash from the far-right.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The Palestinian Authority is corrupt, ineffectual and undemocratic; Hamas in Gaza has run a satanical mafia state, half theocracy and half kleptocracy, indoctrinating the youth for barbarism while crushing the spirit of the adults.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hardworking American citizens.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hard-working American citizens.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But there are productive and nonproductive ways to respond.
    Carlo J.V. Caro, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2017
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“Deadlocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadlocked. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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