traffic jam
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Being stuck there in a human traffic jam is a nightmare many experienced hikers and climbers would do anything to avoid.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Like a traffic jam, even a small blockage in a single sea lane can snarl backward long after the wreckage clears.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
"But we don't yet know whether the action that starts the ridge just isn't happening or whether the traffic jam afterward isn't happening," he said.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
"It's not like a traffic jam that becomes chaotic."
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
Overloaded trucks and buses stall in a traffic jam as thousands of civilians and military personnel flee from Hue to Da Nang as North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces advance, 1975.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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