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as in tangle
something that catches and holds
advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible
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as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass
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Recent Examples of morass
There's this huge morass of gray that both Mark and Cecil [Walton Goggins], and most of our characters, exist in.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
The legal morass created by this scheme doesn't end there.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Shapiro, who launched crisis PR firm 10th Avenue Consulting in 2015 after his lengthy tenure in the federal government, would seem an unconventional choice for Lively given that the spiraling legal morass has no obvious political ties.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
However, starting a process early in President Trump's second term could prove helpful given the resulting legal morass, depending on the mechanism that the EPA employs to repeal it.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
The legal morass created by this scheme doesn't end there.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Shapiro, who launched crisis PR firm 10th Avenue Consulting in 2015 after his lengthy tenure in the federal government, would seem an unconventional choice for Lively given that the spiraling legal morass has no obvious political ties.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
However, starting a process early in President Trump's second term could prove helpful given the resulting legal morass, depending on the mechanism that the EPA employs to repeal it.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morass
Noun
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The shoes stirred something deeper — a tangle of racial and social complexities that came with simply wanting to buy, own, or even wear them.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Even actor Kevin Bacon has found his way into this tangle of out-of-state donors.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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The marsh also rules out a Viking settlement as a source.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The search for a missing 84-year-old man became even more challenging when rescuers located him in a marsh, but couldn’t find their way back out in the dark, Florida officials say.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 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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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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Search and recovery efforts continue for the fourth U.S. Army soldier who went missing in Lithuania last week when a U.S. armored vehicle was submerged in a swamp during a training mission.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2025
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The fourth and final missing U.S. soldier whose armored vehicle sank in a swamp in Lithuania last week was found deceased Tuesday.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 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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By Friday afternoon, the 344 fire, as it was dubbed by Florida’s Forest Service, had ravaged more than 26,000 acres but state and local firefighters had managed to contain it to unoccupied wetlands.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
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The lead organization on the Baltimore harbor proposal, as an example, is the nonprofit South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, which is already engaged in creating wetlands along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River to reduce flood risk and filter stormwater.—
Timothy Wheeler,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Mar. 2025
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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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True educational opportunity requires not just access to loans, but a system that doesn't trap families in financial quicksand for generations.—
Alison Griffin,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Relying solely on perks in such an environment is like building a castle on quicksand.—
Ankita Singh,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Morass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morass. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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