DEAD-ENDED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

dead-ended

verb

past tense of dead-end

as in ended

to come to an end after several fruitless years, the research seems to have simply dead-ended

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United States forward Folarin Balogun has signed with the high-profile Klutch Sports agency following an eventful World Cup campaign that ended when the national team was eliminated by Belgium in the round of 16.

— Martin Rogers, New York Times, 14 July 2026
After a severe concussion ended his career, that structure disappeared almost overnight.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of ended

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In addition,18 employees who had been placed in the 2026 fiscal year layoff prevention pool will be informed that their stay in that pool has expired, the district said.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 14 July 2026
The England international was instead pictured on a training bike at Manchester City, with his loan move having expired at the start of the month.

— Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of expired

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Days before the British sanction, the executive committee of the ICC’s oversight body concluded that Khan had committed serious misconduct and recommended that he be removed from office.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Advertisement By last fall, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had concluded that its conventional public diplomacy efforts—known in Israel as hasbara—were woefully insufficient.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 14 July 2026

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The heavy use of VAR has also interrupted the flow of games by halting matches that weren’t meant to be halted, leaving everyone standing on the field while the referee goes off to watch TV, sometimes for minutes at a time.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
In March, production on season five was halted after it was revealed that fellow cast member Taylor Frankie Paul was involved in a domestic assault investigation.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2026

Definition of halted

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The feminist sites have largely shut down, and physical media is vanishing; many of the magazines that Jezebel targeted—Redbook, InStyle, Marie Claire, Glamour, Self—have ceased printing or gone entirely defunct.

— Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026
Under Mottley, Barbados cut ties with Queen Elizabeth II in November 2021 and ceased to be a constitutional monarchy.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of ceased

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The department said that, as a result of an internal investigation, Flores was effectively terminated from his role at the department on June 9.

— Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
New research from Omdia, commissioned by Apica and surveying 300 enterprise IT decision-makers, found that 59% of enterprises have already terminated or delayed an agentic AI deployment because observability costs have become unmanageable.

— Andi Mann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of terminated

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South Korean markets are closed for a public holiday, so stocks like Softbank and TSMC have attracted the most intense selling.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 17 July 2026
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation want the state and feds to confirm in federal court that the controversial immigration detention center hastily erected in the Everglades has permanently closed and will not reopen.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026

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