Box
Box noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: with our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box
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Synonyms for Box
Nearby Word: boxed
Impasse
Impasse noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: the impossible impasse faced by those who opposed the war but did not want to seem disloyal to the troops
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Box and impasse are semantically related in stalemate topic. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Impasse".
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| real | real box | real impasse |
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Impasse and Box. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/box/impasse
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