quicksand

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Recent Examples of quicksand Unfortunately, the two decisions put Indians into constitutional quicksand. Daniel Mandell / Made By History, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024 Then Teen uses this sudden magic to hurl both other women into the quicksand. Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 Kyren Williams, who has made a career of rushing through the Cardinals’ defense, was in quicksand for most the game with 25 yards and a score. Jay Paris, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024 Wise companies will keep plowing through this quicksand and prepare for the next wave. Andrew Winston, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for quicksand 
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Noun
  • Why Keyword Blocking Is The Wrong Measure In my opinion, creating blacklists of keywords is the most standard brand safety measure, as well as its most typical trap.
    Roman Vrublivskyi, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The fastest way to get rid of roof rats involves a combination of trapping, sealing entry points and removing food and shelter: Set traps strategically: Use snap traps or electronic traps baited with peanut butter, fruit or nuts.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • His proof only guaranteed, for instance, that the circle could be found in his sponge — not that all homeomorphic knots could be, their loops and tangles still intact.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In about 30 minutes the dish is ready, an encouraging tangle of tasty equilibrium.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • While pardons extended to broad categories of people are rare, the approach has been used in the past to avoid the Justice Department becoming complicit in moral quagmires of the federal government's own making.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Georgian anti-Putin drama The Antique, which is that nation’s Oscar entry, has returned to the courts rather than big screens amid a quagmire of legal tussles.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Practically every type of metal and e-waste is recycled somewhere in this labyrinth.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • In Greek mythology, the Minotaur — with the head of a bull and body of a man — was imprisoned at the center of a labyrinth in Crete and ate anyone who couldn’t find their way out.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For such writers and thinkers, including Jean-François Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, and Heinrich Blücher, history felt like a betrayal in which former traditions and institutions had collapsed, leaving behind a morass of emptiness and fractured communities.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • He’s principally defined by having no clear place to be, which can be rich territory for psychological texture — or a narrative morass that bogs everything down.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 July 2024
Noun
  • In the 10-minute sequence, Miller presents a dark, volatile and gory sequence of creepy humanoid-like Pac-Man who must move through a maze by brutally annihilating everything in sight.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In a haze of chiaroscuro images, the film envisions post-Thatcher society as a maze of sociological, ideological, and financial dead ends.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Such is the case with this new secure connection warning for Android users of Google’s Chrome web browser.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4, had a significant online footprint before most web platforms suspended his accounts.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This year commercial Dungeness crabbing south of the Sonoma/Mendocino county line was delayed due to an abundance of humpbacks and a large number of recent entanglements, the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife said.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • After her 10-year relationship collapses, a newly single woman dives back into the dating pool, navigating seven wildly different romantic entanglements that prepare her for her future husband.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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