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  1. cul, cul de sac, dead endnoun

    a passage with access only at one end

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

    Antonyms:
    active

  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"

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

    Antonyms:
    active

  3. dead-endadjective

    lacking opportunities for development or advancement

    "stuck in a dead-end job"

    Antonyms:
    active

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#1778stand
#21749cul
#28830deadlock
#41226impasse
#45060standstill
#48423stalemate

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  1. Jody Culham:

    She is missing a piece of brain tissue about the size of an apple at the back of her brain – almost her entire occipital lobes, which process vision, we think the ‘super-highway’ for the visual system reached a dead end. But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some ‘back roads’ that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision – especially motion – to other parts of the brain.

  2. 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.

  3. Vladimir Putin:

    Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

  4. 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.

  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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