at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
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deadlocked
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for deadlocked.
Editorial note
Twenty or thirty years ago, in America, McDonald's and BK were literally in a deadlocked battle of the giants.
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at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for deadlocked.
adjective
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
See also: obstructed, stalemated
Example sentences
Twenty or thirty years ago, in America, McDonald's and BK were literally in a deadlocked battle of the giants.
The US congress is either owned by corporate interests, deadlocked by partisanship, campaigning for next term, or working on personal projects.
You can use it to find places where you've deadlocked as well as places where adding buffered channels might help performance.
If you get a lock timeout then your program is deadlocked and cannot continue.
Apparently, on the A320 the pilot can use a keypad to re-enter the cockpit, but the door can be manually deadlocked from the inside.
If the thermostat had sent something first, the proxy could have seen that it was invalid TLS and passed it through; instead it deadlocked.
If Congress was not so deadlocked, he would have done more.
Many of the pages I find most misleading are deadlocked, because no-one can agree on what a neutral point of view is.
It says that the bomb couldn't have swayed the supreme council, since news only arrived after they had met and the vote to surrender was deadlocked...
An old friend of mine had a theory that the purpose of emotion was to act as a tie breaker when rational decision making becomes deadlocked.
Because the jury deadlocked on fair use, we remand for further consideration of Google’s fair use defense in light of this decision.
> In their Group F World Cup match late last month, Argentina and Iran were still deadlocked after 90 minutes.
Quote examples
"Players Remain Deadlocked at Moscow Tournament" Deadlocked?
This is the one thing where they are ahead even of the US competition, which is still deciding if they should "do this content thing" and keeping the network deadlocked and at standstill in the meantime (as the wise aristocrats decide).
"Deadlocked two-party rule with <that particular US election system where it sometimes hardly matters what you vote just because of where you live>" You know how, if you question people about democracy enough, after a bit they'll usually admit that "okay it's not optimal, but it's the best we got / came up with so far".
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use deadlocked in a sentence?
Twenty or thirty years ago, in America, McDonald's and BK were literally in a deadlocked battle of the giants.
What does deadlocked mean?
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
What part of speech is deadlocked?
deadlocked is commonly used as adjective.