no end in sight

idiom

used to say that the point at which something will be finished is not known
There is no end in sight to this heat wave.
Prices continue to go up with no end in sight.

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With no end in sight, the family had to flee. Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Lively and Baldoni's back-and-forth legal battle seemingly has no end in sight. Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Science has progressed our understanding further and further back in cosmic history, but so far, there’s no end in sight to where the story actually, truly began. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025 This carried on through training camp and the preseason with no end in sight. Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for no end in sight

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“No end in sight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20end%20in%20sight. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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