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verb

present tense third-person singular of dead-end
as in ends
to come to an end after several fruitless years, the research seems to have simply dead-ended

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dead ends

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noun

plural of dead end
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as in secondary roads

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as in bottlenecks

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Recent Examples of dead-ends
Verb
Boca Chica Beach is a free, undeveloped eight-mile stretch of Gulf shoreline near Brownsville—the southernmost city in Texas—where Highway 4 dead-ends at the water and SpaceX’s Starbase launch towers loom to the north. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 28 June 2026 The one road in—NW Torreya Park Road—dead-ends at the Gregory House. — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026 That is one of many problems that Zara and Luke go on to dodge, including dead-ends, dead bodies and a drunken mom. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026 With three exposures on a block that dead-ends above the East River, the house is also filled with beautiful light. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025 Doubles, glitches, erotic dread, narrative dead-ends. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead-ends
  1. ends
  2. highways
  3. bottlenecks
  4. stops
  5. closes
  6. dilemmas
  7. halts
  8. roads
Verb
  • Amazon Prime Day ends tonight, which means whatever has been sitting in your cart since Tuesday is only on sale for a few more hours.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Ahead, the handbags that caught our eye, and are worth catching on sale before October Prime Day ends tonight.
    — Camila Quimper, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of ends
Noun
  • Parcels of agricultural land surrounded on a certain percentage of their borders by homes, businesses, highways or land zoned for future development can apply for the designation.
    — Nico Rivero, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • It’s been used to raise funds for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a Minnesota woman caught using a racist slur on camera and to support Canadian truckers who blocked highways in protest of Covid restrictions.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • However, so long as shipping bottlenecks persist, the physical crude market must rely on temporary workarounds to sustain flow.
    — , CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • To cut the flow would only add to the bottlenecks that the wars have created.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of bottlenecks
Verb
  • The Miami Dolphins aren’t going to beat an opponent this season until South Florida’s NFL franchise stops beating itself.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026
  • What’s even more interesting is that the pattern persists above the temperature where uranium ditelluride stops being superconducting.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of stops
Noun
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is coming off back-to-back record closes.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
  • How much of that reporting burden will reach portfolio companies remains unclear, but some of it likely will as PE sponsors seek standardized KPIs, faster financial closes, more granular operational metrics and clearer governance documentation.
    — Nate Heeren, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of closes
Noun
  • But strains at the top of the organization over its brand and direction reflect many premium news outlets’ dilemmas about survival and profit in a post-traffic, AI-ascendant media age.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • That’s just a small part of the ethical dilemmas taking place in the high school sports world.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of dilemmas
Verb
  • This natural inversion destroys leadership, fractures relationships and halts self-improvement.
    — Brendan Keegan, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This halts the nuclear fusion process — which involves converting that hydrogen to helium — leading to the stars collapsing and shedding their outer layers to become a white dwarf with around the mass of the sun crammed into the width of Earth.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of halts
Noun
  • As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The landscape was inspired by the inland town of Ioulida, a hilltop village with cascading residential dwellings and winding paths (no car-worthy roads), and a church perched at the precipice.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
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“Dead-ends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead-ends. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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