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blind ˈal·ley N

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blind alley also fig
slepa ulica

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Notably, it led scientists down a blind alley in the belief that the human brain expanded in size before the jaw adapted to new types of food.
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Then he charted the errors they made: demonstrable mistakes, like walking down an obvious blind alley instead of through a tunnel.
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It is always impossible, when there is some big policy innovation, to know whether it is a blind alley or the start of something big.
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As early as the 13th century, a cul-de-sac was a dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley.
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They were led by their educators into the blind alley of social dysfunction.
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However, for the bourgeois economists the labour theory of value presented a paradox as well as a blind alley.
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The boys search around for a room to rent, and hit blind alley after blind alley until finally settling for an open-lot-turned living quarters.
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The nature/nurture debate surely turns out to be something of a blind alley?
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Everyone seemed to be running into a blind alley.
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Entering a blind alley is a terminal error that results in the termination of the trial.
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