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Watts tried to make it in American indies, audition after audition leading nowhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

A number of government panels and commissions have been appointed, all leading nowhere.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2018

Will Westworld advance that premise, or will we be bogged down in "Lost" plot and character spirals leading nowhere?

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016

They won’t be returning to the place where Dewar spent twenty years living the good life: parts of Fukushima have become ghost towns, with strewn rubble, collapsed store fronts, and abandoned roads leading nowhere.

From Salon • May 28, 2013

They had dug another hole, most likely, she thought, just a dummy, leading nowhere.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien




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