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dead end



ADJECTIVE
closed off; lacking opportunity
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Example Sentences

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The remains of these invisible dead end up in Dolores Cemetery, Mexico's largest, situated in Chapultepec Forest.

From Barron's

Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end.

From Los Angeles Times

Bill Gates acknowledges potential for many AI investments to be ‘dead ends,’ comparing it to the internet bubble rather than predicting a full collapse.

From Barron's

There is no dead end that isn’t obscuring some secret hatch or hidden door revealed by doing his own research.

From Salon

Beneath the supernatural grotesqueries, Mr. King reflects on the mundane horrors—insularity, seediness and dead ends—of American small-town life.

From The Wall Street Journal