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Recent Examples of quicksand
Escaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.
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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
Instead, Day and OSU stepped out of the quicksand and dominated No. 9 Tennessee, No. 1 Oregon and No. 5 Texas by an average margin of 19.7 points.
—Lauren Merola, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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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
Instead, Day and OSU stepped out of the quicksand and dominated No. 9 Tennessee, No. 1 Oregon and No. 5 Texas by an average margin of 19.7 points.
—Lauren Merola, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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In one scene from their lives, a bear trap is intentionally left for Benjy to wander into it.—
Justin Porter,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Man traps woman in car for days: Police A Hawaii man was arrested for allegedly trapping an elderly woman in her car for several days and later forcing her to withdraw money from her bank account, according to the Honolulu Police Department.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2025
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Soon enough, this tangle of typical teenage troubles butts up against a sinister alternate universe, the Upside Down.—
Sarah Bahr,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The rubber brushes prevent tangles making long term clean up even easier.—
Carlos Mejia,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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This could substantially drive up the unemployment rate, putting the economy in a quagmire.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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But after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan devolved into quagmires, and amid an increasingly draconian security state and cascading failures at home — from Hurricane Katrina to the housing bubble — something shifted.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2024
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Its calling cards are the centerpiece (a domed metal structure adorned with leaf forms, under which many photo ops and engagements take place each year) and the labyrinth of rose beds that resemble puzzle pieces set into the ground, giving each planting its own room to grow.—
Caroline Rogers,
Southern Living,
24 Mar. 2025
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They are required to have at least one straight section and one labyrinth (three turns in quick succession without a straight section).—
Tim Genske,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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What’s going on For months, Tesla has been struggling with a public relations morass due to Musk’s central role in the White House.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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The manuals of government departments provide intricate guidelines and procedures, totaling an intimidating morass of rules—guidebooks that the bureaucracy can use to justify its actions, or lack thereof.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Through extremely dim, maddening office mazes, it’s discovered that McGovern’s mission is to find and interrogate Sean Mehndez, a family man addled by constant work for the autocratic Leviathan corporation.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The project, which has turned this stretch of road into a maddening maze of orange barrels and construction equipment since its debut in October 2022, is expected to fully wrap by late July.—
John Aguilar,
The Denver Post,
20 Mar. 2025
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Go deeper: How Gen Z is thinking about AI at work Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking Methodology: A Gallup Panel web survey was conducted March 6-13 with a sample of 3,465 13- to 28-year-olds living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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Through two separate stories, the films reveal how an untraceable web of money from wealthy individuals and corporations representing business interests or religious agendas flows through nonprofits and super PACs (political action committees) to support candidates and political movements.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2025
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These films famously take years to make, and projects often fall apart due to entanglements with musicians’ estates and music rights.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2025
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Since 1976, SeaWorld Orlando’s rescue team has operated one of three critical-care facilities in the U.S., responding to manatees in need because of boat strikes, entanglements, cold stress and other life-threatening conditions.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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