morass

1
as in tangle
something that catches and holds advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible

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as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass

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Recent Examples of morass As to The Naked Gun and especially Happy Gilmore 2, both of these new films are driving through the morass of media content with a lot of years on their tire treads. Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 There have been so many years when the morass of the conference could barely compete with teams in similar positions out west. Jared Weiss, New York Times, 8 July 2025 There are no pairs of tidily poetic contradictions, but a morass of inner conflict, uncertainty, pain, and relief. Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025 What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass. Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for morass
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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
  • Aside from Blast vacuuming, the X9 improves on the X8 by adding zero-tangle technology to the side brush and the main brush.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Environmental groups successfully lobbied for the closing of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in 2009, launched barrier island rebuilds, and restored thousands of acres of marsh.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Later that day, Kirkpatrick confirmed that the United Cajun Navy's drone located his remains about 200 yards into the marsh, not far from where he was reported missing, according to FOX affiliate WVUE.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Inconsistency is another trap—being visible during a launch but silent during challenges erodes credibility.
    Heather Rosenow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Low-lying areas that trap water are perfect environments for mosses.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On the coast, there is a swampy coastal plain with mangrove swamps.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Turning into a quagmire, and with other Baldoni-leaning content creators and influencers publicly pushing back against their own subpoenas, that legal fishing expedition of sorts was cut short not long after by Lively’s Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Willkie Farr & Gallagher lawyers.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • After Wexner bought it, the vehicle sank into a quagmire of litigation over its provenance before things were resolved in 2016.
    Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Stretching about 31 miles, this flat, scenic trail follows a former railway line through wetlands, vineyards, and charming towns, all the way to Sandbanks.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The groups argue the center threatens sensitive wetlands that have protected plants and animals.
    Greg Norman , Danamarie McNicholl , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When a deadline is looming, which is pretty much always, the artist Takeru Hokazono’s one-room apartment in Tokyo begins to resemble a labyrinth.
    Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Uncle Sam, already a $36 trillion debtor, dug himself deeper into financial quicksand.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Does TikTok go the Twitter-ian way of far-right quicksand pit?
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025

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“Morass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morass. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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