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Recent Examples of quicksand
Escaping career quicksand requires an ongoing commitment to learn, unlearn, relearn, and repeat.
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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
The legal system is broken, and businesses can’t take a chance in getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tara Suter, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Most of them had been birthed into tough luck and raised in the quicksand of rural poverty.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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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
The legal system is broken, and businesses can’t take a chance in getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tara Suter, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Most of them had been birthed into tough luck and raised in the quicksand of rural poverty.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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Many business owners fall into the trap of believing that busyness is the same as being productive.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Another slice of the trailer appears to be showing a chain of explosions going off, indicating that players might be able to set up more complex traps or breaches than currently.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Why isn’t there space for an organic unfurling, a messy tangle of threads that overlap and deviate?—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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Figuring out why tangles are so tricky could help scientists predict when people’s snap judgments about a physical situation are likely to be wrong, leading to unsafe reactions.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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There is no single champion for the region, and there is no consensus on how to bring the area out of its quagmire.—
Maha Yahya,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk Just Started Shutting Down This Government Agency Hours Before Employees Were Expected to Report to Work The quagmire created by shuttering USAID will have profound, lasting global effects.—
Dawn Klavon,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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Is this a burgeoning love affair or just another con job stacked on top of a labyrinth of deceptions?—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Through the Delta, the state and federal governments supply tap water to two-thirds of the state’s population and irrigation water to millions of acres of farms, with a labyrinth of levees, pumps and islands controlling the balance of saltwater and freshwater.—
Heather Knight,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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While there may be a role for insurance, the sheer number of insurance products available today often creates more confusion than clarity for Americans, forcing them to wade through the morass of fine print that can be purposely misleading and sometimes fraudulent.—
Renee Hsia,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Brown stars as Xavier Collins, a secret service agent to the former President of the United States, Cal Bradford (James Marsden), who is entangled in a morass of intrigue when he is accused of killing his charge.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
16 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The challenge is cutting through the maze of myths and taking an intelligent approach to recovery.—
Vijay Menon,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Tracking Liam down at a maze of a house, Nolan fell through a weak floor, as Miles watched.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
25 Feb. 2025
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Among the many reasons the legal drama has fascinated Hollywood is the tangling web of relationships among the major players in the litigation.—
Pamela McClintock,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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Breaking free from this web requires not just brute force but precise, intelligent tools.—
Prajwalkumar Bhatkar,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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And Musk's financial entanglement with Washington's largest department has stirred skepticism and concerns about conflict of interest.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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The book takes place over the course of one afternoon blow job, while both participants remember the entirety of their entanglement.—
Haley Mlotek,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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