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dead end

[ded-end] / ˈdɛdˈɛnd /


ADJECTIVE
closed off; lacking opportunity
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Gonzalez said labor organizations are often told to “work it out” with businesses but argued this was a dead end.

From Los Angeles Times

How many of our conversations will hit these sorts of dead ends?

From Literature

And with the comic timing of any sentence like that, Zeke and Miel turned a final corner and found themselves at a dead end.

From Literature

"Everyone is also coming to the conclusion that we're heading into a dead end," he said.

From Barron's

Musk previously described Dojo 2 as an “evolutionary dead end” and said clusters of its coming AI6 chips would provide an alternative path of AI processor development.

From Barron's