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graveyard

noun as in burial area

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Telecoms have been a graveyard for many years, mainly because of regulatory pressure.

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He noted that the challenge had become a "graveyard" of attempted solutions.

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A long stretch of road headed west into Westmoreland Parish winds through a graveyard of trees – stacks of branches and limbs, cracked and twisted, blanketing the landscape for miles.

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For years, weight loss was a graveyard for drug development and shunned by large drugmakers.

“People are sort of whistling past the graveyard of some real risks out there for the economy,” said Dean Smith, chief strategist at FolioBeyond.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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