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dashing hopes

NOUN
  1. an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

How To Use dashing hopes In A Sentence

  • That could lead to billions of pounds in payments, dashing hopes that banks can soon draw a line under the costliest mis-selling scandal in history. Times, Sunday Times
  • That could lead to billions of pounds in payments, dashing hopes that banks can soon draw a line under the costliest mis-selling scandal in history. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most discouraging of all, the audit found that elected officials at the village level pocketed a huge chunk of the funds—dashing hopes that decentralization would ensure better oversight.
  • Emerging markets have had a bad start to the year, hurt by a growing fear that a recession in the United States would, as it historically has, hit them harder, dashing hopes for a "decoupling".
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