the trial came to a stalemate when the jury could not come up with a verdict
Our game of chess came to a stalemate.
We'll break for a week, as our bargaining has come to a stalemate.
Stalemate is a word that means the point at which negotiatons make no progress and no possible solution in sight.
It was a classic stalemate: five on five, no where to run, and all of us threatening to shoot each other.
Recent aggression on the part of one nation threatened to stalemate the peace talks.
'Standoff', or 'impasse'.
There is no one rootword. The word "checkmate" is from the 1300s and comes from the Arabic "Shah Mat" meaning the king is dead. Mat meaning dead. The word "stalemate" is from the late 1700s and takes the French word "estale" meaning standstill.
Stalemate=cold war.
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