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"Deadlock" in a Sentence (12 examples)
We must try to break the deadlock.
Hope quickly fades when you encounter a difficult situation and a pointless deadlock. You must be strong.
They have reached a deadlock.
The deadlock was inevitable.
Sami's first trial ended in a deadlock.
Your ambitious character can save us from this deadlock.
Ali scored the goal that broke the deadlock of the game.
It's a deadlock.
The negotiation ended in deadlock, with neither party willing to compromise on the price.
If synchronization is always performed in least-first order with respect to object tags, then situations can never arise in which one thread has the synchronization lock for x while waiting for y and another has the lock for y while waiting for x. Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.
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A suspect was arrested on November 30 and charged with attempted murder. The evidence against him consisted of two jailhouse informers and an eyewitness who picked him out of a lineup after having identified a different man in an initial photo array. A jury ultimately convicted the suspect of assault after deadlocking twice in three days of deliberation.
Since we cannot solve this problem completely, it may sometimes be better to use explicit locks and risk deadlock if a thread exits unexpectedly. It may be better to have a deadlocked system than to have a corrupted system.
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