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• Watching the bill go nowhere last year was hard on him.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• People put out tracks – like Justin Bieber – that go nowhere.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
• Some of Hunter Biden’s business deals appeared to go nowhere.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
• Acknowledge the Signs of Dream Logic Stairs that go nowhere.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• What was once a season that had the potential to go nowhere has become arguably one of the best of the past 30 years.
  — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
• If his take on consumer prices turns out to be correct again, stocks may go nowhere in coming years.
  — Lu Wang, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
• The text is riddled with self-conscious tics and assertions that go nowhere.
  — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• Over the next four hours, the negotiations to have Cerda exit the home go nowhere.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• That inherently means there will be a lot of drives into the paint that go nowhere, leading to a pass and reset.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Of course, the way to make risks absolutely minimized is to go nowhere, do nothing.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2011
• But attempts to plant tension by having Victor sniff around the holes in Leni and Robert’s backstory go nowhere.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
• Those measures will go nowhere in the Senate, where Republicans can block them.
  — Alan Fram, ajc, 12 June 2022
• The landmark event, however, seemed to go nowhere, as the Navy dithered about how to field uncrewed planes from aircraft carriers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2021
• This offense and the development of Tua Tagovailoa go nowhere if the line isn’t better.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• Bills that seem very reasonable on the surface either go nowhere, or wind up taking years to enact.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The documents reflect a proposal at an early stage that could change or go nowhere.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 25 May 2021
• If talks go nowhere in the summer and early fall, while Iran’s nuclear-weapons program progresses, at some point the United States will have to say the game is over.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 4 Aug. 2021
• Without a television sponsor, the Super League will go nowhere.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
• The best dual enrollment program in the world will go nowhere if students and families don’t know about it or see its value.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• As the first standalone sequel after the third installment, The Final Destination is further alone in that the plot seems to go nowhere.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Other Democrats swiftly responded to reports of Graham’s efforts with anger, and vowed that the measure would go nowhere.
  — Amy B Wang and Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2022
• Sometimes your longstanding projects that go nowhere can still be the most satisfying.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Dec. 2023
• Would the playoff still expand after months of negotiations that seemed to go nowhere?
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The next year involves some legal back and forth with the Court of Special Appeals that go nowhere, too, until Serial becomes involved.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2022
• The Diamondbacks are a team coming off a miserable season that is expected to do nothing and go nowhere.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2022
• Seems like a long way to travel to go nowhere particularly meaningful.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Mar. 2023
• House Democrats have pushed anti-gun violence measures, but even more modest ideas like safe gun storage requirements go nowhere.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• Netanyahu would still probably have the first chance to form a government if his Likud party is the biggest in the Knesset, which could result in days or weeks of negotiations that go nowhere.
  — Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
• Those bills will go nowhere in the Senate as long as Republicans can jam them by invoking the filibuster — but to do away with it, Democrats will need every one of their 50 senators onboard.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
• On the other hand, a lack of clarity results in confusion, frustration, poor performance, and efforts that go nowhere.
  — Kumar Mehta, Forbes, 21 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024