virtual standstill
Frequency: 6.88.5 per million words
Similar to 'near standstill', meaning it has stopped in effect, if not literally.
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- Heavy traffic brought the city to a virtual standstill.
- Negotiations between the two parties have reached a virtual standstill.
- Due to the strike, factory production was at a virtual standstill.
- The economy has come to a virtual standstill in recent months.
- The project's progress ground to a virtual standstill after funding cuts.
- After the blizzard, public transport came to a virtual standstill.
- The debate on the new policy is at a virtual standstill.
- A major power outage brought the entire district to a virtual standstill.
- Innovation in that sector has been at a virtual standstill for years.
- With no clear leadership, the organization found itself at a virtual standstill.