How to pronounce “stalemate”(noun) in English

The reason we're in a stalemate right now is that we don't know what we're fighting

technologies that would establish this tense stalemate that defined the Cold War era.

So at the moment, you have a situation where it's essentially a stalemate, with respect to Iran, with respect

If a negotiation is going to succeed, you need to have at least what academics call a mutually hurting stalemate, where both sides realize they're not going to win.

And it's certainly a mechanism that I'm looking at, not as the first line of attack on the stalemate and the breakdown, but as, certainly,