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"hit a dead end" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation where you have reached a point with no further progress or options available. For example: "We followed the lead, but it eventually hit a dead end."
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And then it hit a dead end.
Or had I hit a dead end?
They'd hit a dead end and been ambushed.
But like the nightclub, this business hit a dead end.
But Papadogeorgou and Konstantinou have hit a dead end.
"Frequently, you can hit a dead end or a roadblock and then have to move on".
Sometimes I would hit a dead end and not know where the story was going next.
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But we hit a dead-end.
That conversation hit a dead-end pretty fast.
If they hit a dead-end then of course we lose them to another sport, or no sport at all".
But that company, a one-man show, eventually hit a dead-end and closed up shop.
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