dead end

Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end.

Bill Gates acknowledges potential for many AI investments to be ‘dead ends,’ comparing it to the internet bubble rather than predicting a full collapse.

There is no dead end that isn’t obscuring some secret hatch or hidden door revealed by doing his own research.

Beneath the supernatural grotesqueries, Mr. King reflects on the mundane horrors—insularity, seediness and dead ends—of American small-town life.

"The negotiation with the United States is in fact a pure dead end," Aragchi added.