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1. cul, cul de sac, dead endnoun

   a passage with access only at one end

   Antonyms:
   active

   Synonyms:
   dead-end street, cul, cul de sac, deadlock, stalemate, blind alley, standstill, impasse

2. deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstilladjective

   a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

   "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

   Antonyms:
   active

   Synonyms:
   standstill, cul, dead-end street, cul de sac, stand, deadlock, stalemate, blind alley, tie-up, impasse

3. dead-endadjective

   lacking opportunities for development or advancement

   "stuck in a dead-end job"

   Antonyms:
   active

How to use dead end in a sentence?

1. Adam Mount:

   This approach is clearly a dead end. There are no indications that North Korea is interested in returning to the world of 'fire and fury', the concern now is the president's reaction. Will he calculate that he stands to gain more domestically with returning to threats? Does he want to distract from domestic political or legal problems? All of those things could have volatile results.

2. Charalambos Mouratidis:

   I started farming, hoping to have some kind of a more stable future, and now even that effort is at stake, everyone has reached a dead end in this village.

3. Xu Xing:

   It's a failed experiment, it's an evolutionary dead end, over the last 30 years, there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs.

4. Bill Bratton:

   I'd prefer to just dig the whole damn thing up and put it back the way it was, where Broadway is Broadway and not a dead-end street, the activity is not occurring anywhere else in the area.

5. T.R. Threston:

   I've discovered that researching family descendants is similar to putting a mouse into a puzzle box to find the cheese. Every time you think you're on the right path, you hit a dead end.

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