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Recent Examples of quicksand
The Zags, a perennial powerhouse and long the best team in the West, looked like they were stuck in quicksand all night.
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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
Escaping career quicksand requires an ongoing commitment to learn, unlearn, relearn, and repeat.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The legal system is broken, and businesses can't take a chance on getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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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
Escaping career quicksand requires an ongoing commitment to learn, unlearn, relearn, and repeat.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The legal system is broken, and businesses can't take a chance on getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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Big mistake: Kitchens get plenty dirty already, but the top of your refrigerator can be a veritable dust trap.—
Lauren Phillips,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Mar. 2025
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Too many ambitious people fall into the trap of chasing other people’s definitions of discipline instead of their own.—
Kody Boye,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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All the while, the brain hosts an even more complex tangle of chemicals.—
Elana Spivack,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2025
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The fighting is fueled by the region’s vast mineral wealth, and driven by a tangle of ethnic and political conflicts, as well as decades of bad governance.—
Patricia Huon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 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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Exploring the veritable labyrinth of luxury—past the couture salon displaying Jean Paul Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent treasures, the jewel-box bathrooms, and down the spiral staircase—guests eventually arrived at the storied Red Room.—
Freya Drohan,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
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The water level in the labyrinth of underground pipes began to drop, creating a vacuum in the system.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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The culture and system of DOC has solidified into this morass of unaccountability and negligence that can probably only be excised from without, by an official not tethered to it or the city’s broader political strictures.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2025
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There's this huge morass of gray that both Mark and Cecil [Walton Goggins], and most of our characters, exist in.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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From the sprawling maze of vendors at one of the world’s best markets to the first and only Michelin three star restaurant in Thailand, here are Suntaranon's essential places to eat, drink, and stay in Bangkok.—
Regan Stephens,
Vogue,
23 Mar. 2025
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But with its maze of construction, detours and delays Highway 50 will be a particular chokepoint for commuters headed downtown, said Masoud Ghodrat Adabi, a Sacramento State civil engineering professor and an expert in transportation planning and traffic safety.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
10 Mar. 2025
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Talk into the night devolves into an intricate web of deception, seduction and revelation, where the lives of all involved may be destroyed or transformed.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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Ivey’s coaching staff also casts a web of support to protect her from outside noise and aid her vision for the team’s present and future.—
Sharí Nycole,
Essence,
26 Mar. 2025
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Whereas empathy can lead to emotional entanglement that can distort decision-making, compassionate objectivity acknowledges and validates emotions without being overtaken by them.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t Conrad’s first legal entanglement over data access.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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