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a dead end

a situation in which no progress can be made. Negotiators have reached a dead end in their attempts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.

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To this day I am not quite certain whether it was the name of any human habitation, a lonely caserio with a half-effaced carving of a coat of arms over its door, or of some hamlet at the dead end of a ravine with a stony slope at the back. The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context More results

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