as in to end
to come to an end
after several fruitless years, the research seems to have simply dead-ended
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as in high road
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Jack Kelly, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
This, Wyatt hopes, will nudge designers away from dead-end or unappealing results.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2022
Rebecca Heisman, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Chrysler’s minivan would steer clear of those two dead ends, and carry American families onto the open roads toward, well, youth soccer and mall commerce.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
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Verb
The available roles may be lower-paying and dead-end jobs people don’t want.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
This, Wyatt hopes, will nudge designers away from dead-end or unappealing results.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2022
Noun
These sterile hybrids are essentially evolutionary dead ends.
—Rebecca Heisman, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Chrysler’s minivan would steer clear of those two dead ends, and carry American families onto the open roads toward, well, youth soccer and mall commerce.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Dead-end.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-end. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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