as in ends
to come to an end
after several fruitless years, the research seems to have simply dead-ended
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Recent Examples of dead-ends
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
28 June 2026
The one road in—NW Torreya Park Road—dead-ends at the Gregory House.
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Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2026
That is one of many problems that Zara and Luke go on to dodge, including dead-ends, dead bodies and a drunken mom.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
With three exposures on a block that dead-ends above the East River, the house is also filled with beautiful light.
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Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
22 Sep. 2025
Doubles, glitches, erotic dread, narrative dead-ends.
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Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
Verb
Boca Chica Beach is a free, undeveloped eight-mile stretch of Gulf shoreline near Brownsville—the southernmost city in Texas—where Highway 4 dead-ends at the water and SpaceX’s Starbase launch towers loom to the north.
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Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
28 June 2026
The one road in—NW Torreya Park Road—dead-ends at the Gregory House.
—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2026
That is one of many problems that Zara and Luke go on to dodge, including dead-ends, dead bodies and a drunken mom.
—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
With three exposures on a block that dead-ends above the East River, the house is also filled with beautiful light.
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Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
22 Sep. 2025
Doubles, glitches, erotic dread, narrative dead-ends.
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Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead-ends
Verb
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Find your favorite before the deal ends, and check out more bedding from Bloomhaven below.
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After physical disk production ends, new games will be available exclusively in digital format from the PlayStation Store, an online shop for PlayStation games, and at retailers.
Noun
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
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As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the museum offers a patriotic lens into how the canals, highways, railroads and mines that stitched this country together were built by machines born in American factories.
Noun
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Leaders should identify where bottlenecks crept back in, restore psychological safety around small failures, and rebuild the feedback loops that make frequent, low-risk deployment feel sustainable.
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The biggest bottlenecks are labor and supply chains, Lavandier said.
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Santorini stops being only a view and starts behaving like a place again.
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Workforce needs, customer expectations, and business conditions evolve, and leaders have to be willing to adjust if the model stops delivering results.
Noun
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The insurance requirement carries no fee during that period, but the authority says charges may be imposed once the MoU’s established 60‑day toll-free window closes.
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Risk systems that were designed around market closes and business-day workflows will need to function in a market where exposure changes continuously.
Noun
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Instead of adding more junk to your drawers, these clever gadgets actually solve kitchen dilemmas we’re all faced with.
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To implement ethicsmaxxing, organizations should adopt clear codes of ethics and engage in regular discussions on ethical dilemmas.
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The countywide legislation halts zoning and permitting processes for data centers and BESS sites in unincorporated areas of Jackson County for 180 days, which sponsor Sean Smith and other legislators have said will create time for the county to set more detailed permanent land use policies.
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But the publishing machine never quite halts, and the coming months do star a (smaller) collection of exciting new releases.
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Rodríguez denied those claims, saying some remote areas were difficult to reach because roads were blocked by landslides and debris, forcing authorities to rely on motorcycles, drones and satellite imagery.
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The roads can become extremely dangerous during this period because of fog, smoke, black ice and poor visibility.
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“Dead-ends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-ends. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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