The word "rut" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used as a noun to refer to a repeated and unchanging pattern of behavior. For example, "After years of working in the same job, Joan found herself in a rut and decided it was time to make a career change."
Cameron told viewers that Britain was "stuck in a rut", where it would remain until public spending was cut.
A pickup in the eurozone will soothe fears that the region is stuck in a rut of consistently sluggish growth.
We are faced with few options to get out of this self-created rut.
Worse, Germany may now be stuck in a rut, because, as Mr Regling explained: "Low growth expectations...have become entrenched".A commission's credibilityThere is nothing the European Commission can do about the side-effects of a fixed exchange rate and a single interest rate for the euro area they are inherent to a single currency.
David Dinkins, the city's most recent Democratic mayor, was a decent man with the mark of doom on him.Ever since Mr Giuliani ousted Mr Dinkins in 1993, New York's left has been stuck in an unruly rut.
Mr Edwards is stuck in a "two Americas" rut.
Boeing will have to choose which way to jump in the next few months, based on the reaction of a group of key airlines.Holy Cow, Batman!Even if the Cruiser crashes, Boeing is still looking at ways to escape from the tube-with-wings rut that has constrained commercial-aircraft design from its very beginning.
And so long as Japan is in its long-term rut government debt will build and will find its way onto the balance sheet of the Bank of Japan.
Through this switchback, says Marta Lagos, Latinobarómetro's director, what is striking is the underlying stability of opinion.In this section After Kirchner's victory Battered by the storm Out in the cold Democracy's ten-year rut ReprintsSupport for democracy is lower in a dozen countries today than in 1996 (see charts 1 and 2).
Moreover, counter-intelligence has been stuck in the same intellectual rut as counter-terrorism: bound by a case-file mentality and devoid of analytic resources and imagination.
But before long, "American Sniper" backs away from that portrayal, and settles into a rut that has been dug by countless previous war movies.
