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verb

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Recent Examples of maze
Noun
The set lets Dad build the arcade cabinet along with a four-way joystick, illuminating coin slot, adjustable game score display and a mechanical maze. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 June 2025 Unlike Tesla which has very little complexity across its smaller lineup of vehicles, Stellantis manages dozens of models across 14 brands and a maze of global suppliers, increasing the challenges around implementing new software. Nora Eckert, USA Today, 29 May 2025 To do that accurately, the system must be carefully calibrated, and that's where the maze comes in. Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 6 June 2025 The maze is changing live and the staircases are moving, but don’t give up. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for maze
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maze
Noun
  • Each insurance company seems to have its own labyrinth of portals and billing procedures.
    Paulina Wierzbicka, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, in a labyrinth of fortified tunnels outside the city of Natanz, centrifuges spun at speeds too fast for the eye to track.
    Nik Popli, Time, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • That means naming the fear, the confusion and even the shame that might arise.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • That temptation, rich in moral confusion, runs through Leonardland, onscreen as on the page.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Particularly in the Eastern Conference, where the window continues to widen because of nightmare injuries, free agency departures, and puzzling decisions to fire head coaches (looking at you, Knicks).
    Shane Young, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • There is a small and puzzling group of contract manufacturers — Flex , Celestica and Jabil — with stock moves that defy logic.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • An international team of astronomers now suggests this signal could be used to determine how light from the first stars interacted with this cosmic fog, helping to lift it.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 June 2025
  • Navigating a business through economic uncertainty can feel like driving at night on an unfamiliar road as the fog rolls in.
    Anita Nelson, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • When Burrell wasn’t tapped to join the show’s 28th season in January — after playing a central role in the first 27 — viewers were appalled and even Burrell was baffled.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
  • Many bat species live for 20 to 40 years, in the wild or in captivity, baffling scientists.
    Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • About a dozen streets on it bore names; the rest was a tangle of lines.
    The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2025
  • That development was paused amid a tangle of lawsuits in 2023 and 2024, but is moving forward after the cases were resolved in November and March.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • The man is Jack Ryan, not to be confused with the Jack Ryan dreamed up by Tom Clancy.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • There are at least eight varieties of Lambrusco grapes (not to be confused with Vitis labrusca of North America), of which the best known, oldest and most abundant is Lambrusco di Sorbara.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Lynskey says she’s been bewildered by the fans who’ve directed online vitriol at Shauna this season, while seemingly forgiving the sins of Shauna’s husband Jeff (Warren Cole) and the heinous crimes committed by Misty (Christina Ricci).
    Todd Longwell, Variety, 2 June 2025
  • Both were bewildered by this fashion design travesty.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025

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“Maze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maze. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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