rabbit hole

noun

: a complexly bizarre or difficult state or situation conceived of as a hole into which one falls or descends

I wanted to show this woman descending into the rabbit hole: this loss of self, becoming a servant to her job and to the work.—

Jessica Chastain

especially : one in which the pursuit of something (such as an answer or solution) leads to other questions, problems, or pursuits

While trying to find the picture again on Google, I fell down the Cosmo rabbit hole, scrolling through a gallery of swimwear, then through "How to Be Sexier-Instantly" and then through all 23 slides of "Sexy Ideas for Long Hair." —

Edith Zimmerman

Because it is so early on in this work it is easy to say that we are either at the edge of a remarkable new and useful science or that we are careering down an environmental rabbit hole. —

Jack Hitt

In the season-two premiere of HBO's Westworld, viewers were again tossed down a rabbit hole filled with theories, where one open door leads to many more closed ones. —

Josh Wigler and Zoe Haylock

Examples of rabbit hole in a Sentence

shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion

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Defense lawyer Adam Lipson had pleaded for leniency, arguing that his client fell into a rabbit hole of conspiracies after having led a crime-free life. —

David K. Li, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024 Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are going down the rabbit hole this Halloween. —

Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2024 For too long, many have assumed that once someone falls down the rabbit hole of conspiracy thinking, they are lost to reason. —

Bernard Marr, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 Both spent a significant amount of time falling down the rabbit hole of Alcala’s crimes and the psychology behind his killing sprees. —

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rabbit hole