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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
What’s going on For months, Tesla has been struggling with a public relations morass due to Musk’s central role in the White House.
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Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
The culture and system of DOC has solidified into this morass of unaccountability and negligence that can probably only be excised from without, by an official not tethered to it or the city’s broader political strictures.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
There's this huge morass of gray that both Mark and Cecil [Walton Goggins], and most of our characters, exist in.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
The legal morass created by this scheme doesn't end there.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
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Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
The culture and system of DOC has solidified into this morass of unaccountability and negligence that can probably only be excised from without, by an official not tethered to it or the city’s broader political strictures.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
There's this huge morass of gray that both Mark and Cecil [Walton Goggins], and most of our characters, exist in.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
The legal morass created by this scheme doesn't end there.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morass
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Soon enough, this tangle of typical teenage troubles butts up against a sinister alternate universe, the Upside Down.—
Sarah Bahr,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The rubber brushes prevent tangles making long term clean up even easier.—
Carlos Mejia,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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The plan includes 124 projects designed to dredge sand, rebuild degraded marshes, and add levees, floodgates and storm surge barriers.—
Adeel Hassan,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Jurors found that energy giant Texaco, acquired by Chevron in 2001, had for decades violated Louisiana regulations governing coastal resources by failing to restore wetlands affected by dredging of canals, drilling of wells and by billions of gallons of wastewater dumped into the marsh.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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Man traps woman in car for days: Police A Hawaii man was arrested for allegedly trapping an elderly woman in her car for several days and later forcing her to withdraw money from her bank account, according to the Honolulu Police Department.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2025
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In one scene from their lives, a bear trap is intentionally left for Benjy to wander into it.—
Justin Porter,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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In fact, this is what drawing the swamp actually looks like.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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From the murky swamp to the kingdom of Duloc, Shrek has captured hearts with its wit, adventures and hilarious dialogue.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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This could substantially drive up the unemployment rate, putting the economy in a quagmire.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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But after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan devolved into quagmires, and amid an increasingly draconian security state and cascading failures at home — from Hurricane Katrina to the housing bubble — something shifted.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2024
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Zoom in: About half of the property has wetlands and ponds, which is where the park portion will go.—
Karri Peifer,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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Oil-and-gas canals crisscross its wetlands, exacerbating seawater destruction of marsh vegetation.—
Adeel Hassan,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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For the office scenes, the cast spent months at a time inside a windowless set, on a sound stage in the Bronx, wandering through a labyrinth of blinding-white Lumon hallways.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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The quest for clarity sends men, women, and children through a labyrinth of official and unofficial detention centers.—
Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Dec. 2024
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From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Lawsuits piling up from unions and states underscore the legal quicksand Musk has stepped into. California cannot afford such recklessness.—
Zac Townsend,
The Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Morass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morass. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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