primrose path
noun
1
: a path of ease or pleasure and especially sensual pleasure
himself the primrose path of dalliance treads—
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare2
: a path of least resistance
Examples of primrose path in a Sentence
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The use of words like understands, thinks, and reasons are all subtle and sneaky ways to lead you down a primrose path to believing that contemporary AI is sentient.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Therefore, when the same phrases are associated with AI, we are led down the primrose path that the AI must also be human or sentient.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
You have been walked down a primrose path.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
Houston is trying to become the first men’s team in more than a decade to play in a Final Four in its hometown, but even though the Cougars have a No. 1 seed, their path home for a championship is hardly a stroll along a primrose path.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
And a few surface-level parallels between President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor in the 1990s suggest some perils for Republicans expecting a primrose path to the White House in 2024.
—Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
Seventy-one years later one can reasonably ask: Has any other couture house traveled the primrose path of fashion with such enduring cultivation, refinement and romance?
—WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
The primrose path to relevance has been strewn with injuries and other baseball hobgoblins.
—Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Therefore, when the same phrases are associated with AI, we are led down the primrose path that the AI must also be human or sentient.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
You have been walked down a primrose path.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
Houston is trying to become the first men’s team in more than a decade to play in a Final Four in its hometown, but even though the Cougars have a No. 1 seed, their path home for a championship is hardly a stroll along a primrose path.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
And a few surface-level parallels between President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor in the 1990s suggest some perils for Republicans expecting a primrose path to the White House in 2024.
—Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
Seventy-one years later one can reasonably ask: Has any other couture house traveled the primrose path of fashion with such enduring cultivation, refinement and romance?
—WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
The primrose path to relevance has been strewn with injuries and other baseball hobgoblins.
—Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
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“Primrose path.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primrose%20path. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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