dashed hopes
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“The oil shock has dashed hopes across the developed world that persistent elevated inflation would resolve itself even with easy policy,” Unlimited Funds CEO Bob Elliott wrote to clients on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The mishaps during a run-through that the US space agency calls a "wet dress rehearsal" dashed hopes that the mission around the Moon could launch as soon as Sunday.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
A cold health alert and weather warnings have been issued for parts of the UK on Christmas Day, as forecasters dashed hopes of a white Christmas.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
Such comments by Powell have dashed hopes on Wall Street that the Fed would cut its rate three times this year, which as recently as March the central bank’s officials had projected they would do.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024
He had seen all this before, and he had seen the sad consequences of dashed hopes in Seattle the previous year.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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