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- noun One who has no prospects for the
future ; aloser ; adropout .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I wish that FDL agreed with me and Chait and Paul Krugman and the SEIU and the NAACP about health care rather than taking its counterproductive dead-ender stance.”
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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Playing the dead-ender card makes little sense when the underlying position lacks moral, political and practical content.
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They are playing solely to the right-wing dead-ender segment of the electorate that thinks a depression will be purifying.
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I wish that FDL agreed with me and Chait and Paul Krugman and the SEIU and the NAACP about health care rather than taking its counterproductive dead-ender stance.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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With a book's credibility -- and, more importantly, its sales -- to salvage, it seems WND has chosen to be a dead-ender on the issue, engaging post-certificate release in a continuous process of throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something sticks.
Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily's Natural Born Misleaders Terry Krepel 2011
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I wish that FDL agreed with me and Chait and Paul Krugman and the SEIU and the NAACP about health care rather than taking its counterproductive dead-ender stance.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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What went underappreciated is that Holder was essentially doing his level best to avoid making any connections between dead-ender jihadists and the larger Muslim population of Earth, with whom we are attempting to find common cause in the war on terror.
Malcolm Nance: Defeat Al Qaeda By Rebranding It As A 'Cult' (VIDEO) 2010
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Looks like we'll have to make the DADT dead-ender watch a regular feature!
Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2010
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* DADT dead-ender watch: It turns out that the Pentagon had to step in and help foil the last minute procedural effort by GOP Senators to scuttle DADT repeal.
Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2010
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This poll is nothing but a way to reward the dead-ender 22% in this country by telling them that the intensity of their irrational and psychotic worldview matters more than anything else in electoral politics.
The Rasmussen "Presidential Approval Index": Is This Newer Measurement Worth Anything? 2010
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