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# How to pronounce "log jam" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/lɒgjæm/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **log·jam**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun, verb
- **NOUN**: An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
- **NOUN**: A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
  - *Example*: "Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam."
- **VERB**: To deliberately impede or delay the progress of.

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "log jam" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "patent over plain paper copying when that first came out that would be a powerful tool log Jam in the P patent office is that more or less capture and particularly with respect to to patting yes"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 41:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU46YcYAnB8&t=2490s)

### Example 2
> "is pulling more of the weight said I can't go on this way that sometimes can can cause the Log Jam to break and for them to take a fresh look at the respective contributions so I've only seen a few cases of that but I have seen some a few of them you SE more where it's just falling apart really Absol"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 52:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMQo6lNU70&t=3174s)

### Example 3
> "little bit by the government they're not able to negotiate in the way that would normally happen so there seems to be intransigence at the moment there seems to be a log Jam and nobody seems willing to compromise so it does look as though disruption to the railways it's going to continue at the very least until the 9th of January and quite possibly Beyond then as well it sounds at the moment and certainly for the foreseeable future Theo as if this is coming down to a"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCxo2_x5J-0&t=284s)

### Example 4
> "not my tradition I think that I I sort of seek these sort of emotional and sort of psychological log jams that people have on political issues right Log Jam meaning you take Inconvenient Truth and the story of climate change had been told in many different ways for a long time in fact some environmentalists said there's nothing new in Inconvenient Truth but I was trying to break through an emotional and psychological Log Jam that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF2UUwCqzpc&t=1311s)

### Example 5
> "now you work right about politics what are you looking for in a president in our next president in 2016 someone who's able to go to Washington and uh unlock the The Log Jam you know and get the timber moving down the river what are we looking for in a president I'm okay with what we got okay I think we have a very good president right now we need a better more inform"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-6UOpuP6XI&t=39s)

### Example 6
> "leadership you know someone someone who's able to go into Washington and uh unlock the The Log Jam you know and and get the timber moving down the river uh but I don't know if that's any one person I think it's the culture of Washington has to change and right now it's uh quog mired in its own sort of"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImQPmckZSpU&t=21s)

### Example 7
> "paralytic sort of or Log Jam like situations where um they have important stories to tell but they cannot be told because they're not accessible or um so"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 70:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLIRoRCd4g&t=4203s)

### Example 8
> "The people at the bottom of the organization say there's the bottleneck, it's right at the top. How to we break the log jam? How do we resolve this catch 22?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ8bI77c0Ro&t=723s)

### Example 9
> "rifle barrel so it needs a lot of training that will take even if you rush it three or four months so although the ukrainians are right to feel good in the sense that Britain has broken The Log Jam because they expect leopards from the Germans though it'd be awkward to have leopard tanks again in Ukraine or German tanks in Ukraine the American Abraham so this is this is in the senses"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t88-CHESdh8&t=265s)

### Example 10
> "coordinated announcement of several countries to uh to to unite as it were to give a a larger number of battle tanks to Ukraine I think that's the most likely outcome but as I say that Log Jam has to be cleared in Germany and it has to be cleared at the highest possible level but I think it's inevitable in due course they will get those tax and they are the best tanks for Ukraine at the moment there hasn't been much movement in"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCMuiYcvlMc&t=333s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [log](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/log), [jam](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/jam)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "log jam" correctly?
"log jam" is pronounced `/lɒgjæm/`. Syllable breakdown: **log·jam**.

### What does "log jam" mean in context?
An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.

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