: made up of a series of dashes
a lane marked off by dashed lines
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Real Estate: With China’s real estate boom coming to a sudden halt, many Chinese homebuyers have been left with dashed dreams, empty bank accounts and unfinished homes.
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Joy Dong, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
The dashed red line shows smoothed observational data.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
But the path there isn’t yet clear, many backers say, and hydrogen has been a source of dashed hopes for years.
—Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 14 June 2022
But the cream-cheese shortage appears to have hit a particular nerve, capping a year of dashed hopes for a return to normal with another obstacle to enjoying even the tiniest of indulgences.
—Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
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Joy Dong, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
The dashed red line shows smoothed observational data.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
But the path there isn’t yet clear, many backers say, and hydrogen has been a source of dashed hopes for years.
—Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 14 June 2022
But the cream-cheese shortage appears to have hit a particular nerve, capping a year of dashed hopes for a return to normal with another obstacle to enjoying even the tiniest of indulgences.
—Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
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“Dashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dashed. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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dashed
adjective
: made up of a series of dashes
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