has been deadlocking

• present perfect progressive

  present perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.

  of deadlock (3rd person singular).
  deadlock

  noun

  a state in which progress is impossible, as in a dispute, produced by the counteraction of opposing forces; standstill; stalemate.

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