stalemate
a deadlock in which no progress can be made
Stalemate in a sentence
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The negotiations ended in a frustrating stalemate.
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Far from being the revolutionary thinker his admirers claimed, the philosopher was in fact quite blank, defending the traditional doctrines of his teachers without challenge.
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