mazes 1 of 2

plural of maze

mazes

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of maze

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mazes
Noun
That’s a big disappointment since Universal has billed Fallout as one of the three marquee mazes of Horror Nights 2025, alongside Five Nights at Freddy’s and Terrifier, the top two mazes of the night. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025 The next few months bring endless possibilities for outdoor outings like pumpkin picking, corn mazes, and fall walks. Melody Kazel, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Original concepts include mazes set in a demonic version of the Old West, a life-sized toybox full of twisted dolls and a frozen Northern town beleaguered by monsters. Julie Tremaine, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Hidden Trails and Hidden Hills are family-friendly farms that have corn mazes, pumpkin patches, and petting zoos. Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025 Mice treated with lithium were once again able to navigate mazes and learn to identify new objects, whereas those who got placebos showed no change in their memory and thinking deficits. Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mazes
Noun
  • Pet sharks and underground labyrinths, unwelcome doppelgängers and vegetable-hungry monster-rabbits, rogue planets heading for Earth and diabolical Red Wizards—what do all these share in common?
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Her books, with their Borgesian labyrinths and witchy symmetries, sometimes flirt with nonsense.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • English also says that protective or tight styles can also lead to matting if left in too long, by compacting tangles at the base.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Peralta leaders had kicked around the idea for years but avoided discussing it in concrete terms, with bureaucratic tangles often getting in the way.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • One case that still baffles is the macabre story of Virginia McCullough, who killed her parents for their money – and then lived with their bodies for four years.
    KC Baker, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And so an urban tunnel not only blocks some satellites, but confuses the listeners as to which are direct or reflected signals.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wedged in the far southeastern corner of the bottom of the continent, between South Africa and Mozambique, Eswatini is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, a status that bewilders modernizers and beguiles traditionalists.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Mazes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mazes. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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