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What is a logjam?

What is a logjam? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
  2. (figuratively) A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
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One thing that may break the logjam is the ability to build a functioning democracy.
Trying to determine the reason for the human logjam, I craned my neck trying to see over the heads of the rest of the parishioners.
Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP's health spokeswoman, challenged ministers to intervene to ease the logjam.
Although this step does break the logjam to some extent, it is not exactly a huge breakthrough in and of itself.
Attempts to break the logjam struck at the very root of republican theology.
About 200 years ago, a huge logjam formed in the Red River where it flows through northwestern Louisiana.

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