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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Meanwhile, Mark is determined to solve the Gemma/Miss Casey question and rescue either or both of them (preferably both) from the labyrinth of Lumen's corridors and conference rooms.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
15 Jan. 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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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
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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
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
Noun
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Take a deep breath because these claims form just one part of a clumsy web of viral content, in which Ronaldo, Messi and their children are part of the collateral.—
Adam Crafton,
The Athletic,
19 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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Although these deals may be legal, the extent of family entanglements at Super Micro could create conflicts of interest, and signal weak corporate governance.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Then on March 14, a total lunar eclipse in Virgo will shake up your eighth house of mergers, joint ventures and shared resources, urging you to release emotional baggage or financial entanglements that no longer serve you.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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