Noun We came to a dead end and had to turn around. My career has hit a dead end.
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In his junior year of high school, Agustin brought home an application for a learner’s permit — and all of a sudden his striver’s journey hit a dead end. Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022 Already one use – creating more efficient MRI scans - has proven to be a dead end, Gasman tells me. Bernard Marr, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022 Each time someone has tried to crack the code, it's led to a dead end. Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 After a 90-degree turn over a box-girder bridge, this optional diversion runs six miles up a side canyon to another dead end. Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2022 In the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, Watkins and his co-authors made a persuasive case that Crivelli’s often weird and gnarly works should not be seen, as Berenson saw them, as a creative dead end. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022 Did the United States lead Ukraine down a dead end? Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022 Much like his aspiration of entering the operating room, Segura hit a dead end in his career as a rapper. Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 15 June 2022 His government hosted initial rounds of diplomatic talks between Moscow and Kyiv, but those discussions appear to have hit a dead end even as the war bogs down. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 May 2022 See More