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Recent Examples of quicksand
Relying solely on perks in such an environment is like building a castle on quicksand.
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Ankita Singh, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Escaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Of course academics and other people with more regular artist jobs can get harried, but then again so can artists trying to string together work on quicksand!
—Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
The Zags, a perennial powerhouse and long the best team in the West, looked like they were stuck in quicksand all night.
—Lindsay Schnell, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ankita Singh, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Escaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Of course academics and other people with more regular artist jobs can get harried, but then again so can artists trying to string together work on quicksand!
—Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
The Zags, a perennial powerhouse and long the best team in the West, looked like they were stuck in quicksand all night.
—Lindsay Schnell, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
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The bagless self-empty base can hold up to 60 days of dirt and debris, and HEPA filtration traps 99.97% of allergens.—
& John Mihaly,
PC Magazine,
27 May 2025
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When Aliyar breaks a match inside a lock and traps 700 kids in the school playground, he is suspended for a week from school.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
22 May 2025
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Other experimental drugs have targeted the tau tangles, a different protein that builds up inside nerve cells.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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Despite the sleek design of modern gadgets and the rise of wireless solutions, both businesses and consumers still live in a frustrating tangle of cables.—
Mark Vena,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Instead of being clubbed with China, Russia and the Western powers, India was in a terrifying new quagmire.—
Mujib Mashal,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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On Monday, Trump grew angry at the questions of an ethical quagmire, including whether Qatar expected anything in exchange for the donation of the jetliner.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 May 2025
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This particular one was modeled after the labyrinth in the Chartres Cathedral and dedicated to John-Roger after his death.—
Julissa James,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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The giant spreads his arms to gesture at the labyrinth of pages, then throws his head back in cackling laughter.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
13 May 2025
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Attempting to sort that out has been a morass of long phone calls on hold and in-person trips seeking an appointment.—
Darius Tahir,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2025
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The nearly $2T student loan morass is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 May 2025
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Karlsson found the puck in a maze of chaos around the blue paint and roofed it over Trent Miner to call game.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Fat, Sugar, and Impaired Brain Function For the study, college students were asked to navigate a virtual maze to locate a treasure chest.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
16 May 2025
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But then the genre all but disappeared at the box office, as people were getting their comedy through various web sites, social media and Marvel movies.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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On the ground floor there is also a window display dedicated to its signature web motif in green/red/green and in blue/red/blue established in the mid-1950s.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
24 May 2025
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His romantic entanglements with men over the years.—
Maer Roshan,
HollywoodReporter,
21 May 2025
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The company’s Quantum network entanglement chip is a research prototype that enables quantum networks to scale and connect quantum processors for practical applications.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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