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Recent Examples of quicksand
Two-thirds of the season remains, and the quicksand and trap doors will eventually get someone, if only because that’s how pitching works.
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Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 June 2025
However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Lawsuits piling up from unions and states underscore the legal quicksand Musk has stepped into.
California cannot afford such recklessness.
—Zac Townsend, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 June 2025
However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Lawsuits piling up from unions and states underscore the legal quicksand Musk has stepped into.
California cannot afford such recklessness.
—Zac Townsend, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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Affluent families sometimes fall into the trap of overprotecting their kids, removing all struggle in the name of love.—
Anatoly Iofe,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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The idealistic and naively optimistic Superman walks right into the trap.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
Noun
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In my experience, most sea salt sprays require some sort of trade-off: either tons of volume but tangles, or great wave definition but very little body.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
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One of the most aggressive garden invaders, bindweed rapidly rambles through perennials and shrubs, creating a leafy tangle of stems and foliage.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
Noun
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Iran’s nuclear and military capacity has been reduced, its network of proxies largely smashed, the friendly Assad regime in Syria gone, a quagmire resulting from regime change in Tehran avoided.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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After promising not to, Trump plunged us into another military quagmire.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Pushing a tile onto the board pushes another off and creates new routes through the labyrinth.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
9 July 2025
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In the original, Emily, the enigmatic socialite, and Stephanie, the ever-eager mommy vlogger, navigated a labyrinth of secrets, betrayals, and, of course, a missing person.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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There are no pairs of tidily poetic contradictions, but a morass of inner conflict, uncertainty, pain, and relief.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 2025
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Tax administration is often written off as a bureaucratic morass—a neutral, technocratic function made necessary by the modern state but best kept as small as possible.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
Noun
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That meant a grid of streets that over the years also became a maze of roads in winding subdivisions.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
8 July 2025
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Through a basement maze of whirring industrial equipment are mundane-looking doors that lead to the unexpected.—
Alina Hartounian,
NPR,
7 July 2025
Noun
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Judge then turned a Dansby Swanson line drive into another web gem on the next play.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Beyond talent, Microsoft and Google clashed directly in web technologies.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Noun
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And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.—
Hannah Demissie,
ABC News,
5 July 2025
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Manatees also are vulnerable to boat strikes, entanglement in fishing gear and ingestion of marine debris.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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