dead ends
- plural of dead end.
- present tense form of dead-end (3rd person singular).
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"No dead ends" is the philosophy which underpins Dutch education and youth employment policy - every stage of a young person's journey is designed to lead somewhere.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
In the meantime, police were exploring other avenues, other suspects, hitting dead ends and trawling through mountains of CCTV.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
“We are running into dead ends on their website,” said CEO Vernon Kasten Jr., who expects to receive about $150,000 in tariff refunds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Others, exhausted by the dead ends, have been forced to leave the industry altogether.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
They drive until it grows dark, without destination in mind, past hidden ponds and graveyards, culs-de-sac and dead ends.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
But the tips and leads they received led to dead-ends, and so the case remained unsolved for 47 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
However, pharmaceutical companies want to recover their years of research and development costs - and the field has produced a lot of expensive duds and dead-ends.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
Podcasts such as The Coldest Case in Laramie and Bear Brook detail twists and turns in who-done-it style journalism, exposing dead-ends and biases in investigations that have left possible killers free for decades.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
This Forest Service land in Snohomish County, where the dirt road dead-ends at the South Fork of Canyon Creek, checks all the boxes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
Instead of heading toward The Strand, however, he takes a small turnoff down a dirt road that dead-ends.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
