dead-ends 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of dead-end
as in ends
to come to an end after several fruitless years, the research seems to have simply dead-ended

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dead ends

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noun

plural of dead end
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as in secondary roads

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as in bottlenecks

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Recent Examples of dead-ends
Verb
Boca Chica Beach is a free, undeveloped eight-mile stretch of Gulf shoreline near Brownsville—the southernmost city in Texas—where Highway 4 dead-ends at the water and SpaceX’s Starbase launch towers loom to the north. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 28 June 2026 The one road in—NW Torreya Park Road—dead-ends at the Gregory House. — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026 That is one of many problems that Zara and Luke go on to dodge, including dead-ends, dead bodies and a drunken mom. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026 With three exposures on a block that dead-ends above the East River, the house is also filled with beautiful light. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025 Doubles, glitches, erotic dread, narrative dead-ends. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead-ends
  1. ends
  2. highways
  3. bottlenecks
  4. stops
  5. closes
  6. dilemmas
  7. halts
  8. roads
Verb
  • The move circumvents any potential floor vote on the impeachment and virtually ensures it won't be addressed before the current Congress session ends.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Both ends of the flat, which was about three-quarters of a mile long, gave commanding vistas of the country.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of ends
Noun
  • If El Niño brings storms that damage the road again, history suggests Caltrans will fix it, seemingly stuck in an endless loop of patchwork repairs for one of California’s most challenging mountain highways to maintain.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
  • For example, campaign workers must remove signs placed within sight of state highways within 10 days after an election.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • Qantas The purpose of Project Sunrise is to establish new non-stop antipodean air routes from Sydney to London and New York as a way to avoid traditional long-range bottlenecks and, ironically, speed up the trip.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Expanding into new product categories traditionally creates supply chain bottlenecks through the complexity of factory coordination and the resulting friction.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of bottlenecks
Verb
  • The question, posed during an on-court postgame interview, was when a young player stops measuring his performance by his point total and starts measuring it by the result.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Even hair and makeup had to adapt, since traditional hair spray stops working properly in that cold.
    — Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of stops
Noun
  • Whether China and the United States blunder into war before that window closes will be among the defining questions of the coming years.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Big for Club name Nvidia, which has posted back-to-back record closes.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of closes
Noun
  • Hitchcock’s Rear Window, though not a road horror film, is about the moral dilemmas associated with encounters with the other, particularly with regards to voyeurism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Together, Frankenstein and The Vampyre remind us of literature’s power to probe the deepest questions of human existence, offering enduring insights into the ethical, social, and existential dilemmas that continue to shape our world.
    — Maria Papadouris, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of dilemmas
Verb
  • The council voted unanimously on the ordinance, which halts new oil and gas drilling in the city and phases out existing production over the next 20 years.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The Bears go three-and-out, and the wind halts the ensuing punt, landing at the 15-yard line.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of halts
Noun
  • Brand-new roads in South Florida are often designed to handle 7 or so inches of rain in a day.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The other five victims died in crashes involving vehicles used to block roads.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of roads

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“Dead-ends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-ends. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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