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A thread is stuck in BLOCKED state. How will you identify and fix it?

Tests whether you'd take a thread dump and look for the thread holding the monitor that the BLOCKED thread is waiting on, then trace why that holder never releases it (often a lock held across a slow I/O or network call).

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