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Recent Examples of quicksandEscaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.—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 See All Example Sentences for quicksand
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.
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Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2025
In one scene from their lives, a bear trap is intentionally left for Benjy to wander into it.
In the United States alone, navigating the labyrinth of healthcare administrative tasks costs up to $265 billion annually, according to a 2023 McKinsey analysis.
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Jacob Miller,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
The 100-acre resort has a 45,000-square-foot waterpark with a labyrinth of waterslides.
While the city is at a crossroads, the job of mayor is shrinking, and with it the likelihood that bold and competent future leadership can lift Chicago from a historic morass.
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Forrest Claypool,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
The legal morass created by this scheme doesn't end there.
Those who were there vividly recall that spring day when 124 million gallons of water from the Chicago River flowed into the city’s maze of underground freight tunnels and building basements, turning the Loop into a ghost town.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
Indiana orchard carves stunning Caitlin Clark tribute into corn maze
County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana, has seen record crowds come to witness its Caitlin Clark corn maze in honor of the WNBA Fever and former Iowa star this Halloween season.
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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.
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April Rubin,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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.
The legacy of colonialism and Cold War entanglements that drew parts of the region into superpower rivalries and proxy wars left many Southeast Asian countries wary of aligning too closely with any one major power.
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Lynn Kuok,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
What makes quantum internet even safer is a phenomenon called entanglement.
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Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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