diff --git a/ui/src/components/IssueBlockedNotice.tsx b/ui/src/components/IssueBlockedNotice.tsx
index 5d3df88375f..e57c7c3bd6a 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/IssueBlockedNotice.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/IssueBlockedNotice.tsx
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ export function IssueBlockedNotice({
           <p className="leading-5">
             {blockers.length > 0
               ? isStalled
-                ? <>Work on this issue is blocked by {blockerLabel}, but the chain is stalled in review without a clear next step. Resolve the stalled review below or remove it as a blocker.</>
+                ? stalledLeafBlockers.length > 1
+                  ? <>Work on this issue is blocked by {blockerLabel}, but the chain is stalled in review without a clear next step. Resolve the stalled reviews below or remove them as blockers.</>
+                  : <>Work on this issue is blocked by {blockerLabel}, but the chain is stalled in review without a clear next step. Resolve the stalled review below or remove it as a blocker.</>
                 : <>Work on this issue is blocked by {blockerLabel} until {blockers.length === 1 ? "it is" : "they are"} complete. Comments still wake the assignee for questions or triage.</>
               : <>Work on this issue is blocked until it is moved back to todo. Comments still wake the assignee for questions or triage.</>}
           </p>
diff --git a/ui/storybook/stories/status-language.stories.tsx b/ui/storybook/stories/status-language.stories.tsx
index 127e0e22cdc..137fc320ab1 100644
--- a/ui/storybook/stories/status-language.stories.tsx
+++ b/ui/storybook/stories/status-language.stories.tsx
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ const blockedNoticeFixtures: BlockedNoticeFixture[] = [
   },
   {
     label: "Stalled (multiple leaves)",
-    caption: "Multiple stalled reviews — copy switches to the unnamed pluralized variant.",
+    caption: "Multiple stalled reviews — body uses plural agreement (\"reviews\"/\"them\") to match the chip strip.",
     blockers: [
       summaryBlocker({
         id: "issue-stalled-parent-multi-a",
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ function StatusLanguage() {
           </div>
           <p className="mt-3 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
             Stalled-state copy switches to "stalled in review without a clear next step" and adds a "Stalled in review"
-            chip strip beneath the regular blocker chips. Single-leaf stalled copy names the leaf identifier; multi-leaf
-            falls back to the unnamed pluralized variant.
+            chip strip beneath the regular blocker chips. The trailing imperative pluralizes when multiple stalled
+            leaves are surfaced ("reviews"/"them") to match the chip strip.
           </p>
         </Section>