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dead end
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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.
See also: dead, end


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Bowman, a continuation campus, sits on a winding, hilly road that had little traffic because it dead-ended -- until recently.
At least five lines of chemical inquiry dead-ended before the researchers focused on ethyl oleate as a potential pheromone component, Robinson says.
 
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