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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
No one felt that way after Game 3’s third-period morass.
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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2025
But the company has built a business around identifying illicit services like digital black markets out of the morass of billions of cryptocurrency addresses.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 5 June 2025
For years, Marvel films worked this jocular-fantastic angle, in pointed contrast to the grimdark expectorations of their DC counterparts, who were drowning in a morass of runaway budgets and brooding slo-mo.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
While the city is at a crossroads, the job of mayor is shrinking, and with it the likelihood that bold and competent future leadership can lift Chicago from a historic morass.
—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2025
But the company has built a business around identifying illicit services like digital black markets out of the morass of billions of cryptocurrency addresses.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 5 June 2025
For years, Marvel films worked this jocular-fantastic angle, in pointed contrast to the grimdark expectorations of their DC counterparts, who were drowning in a morass of runaway budgets and brooding slo-mo.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
While the city is at a crossroads, the job of mayor is shrinking, and with it the likelihood that bold and competent future leadership can lift Chicago from a historic morass.
—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morass
Noun
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In my experience, most sea salt sprays require some sort of trade-off: either tons of volume but tangles, or great wave definition but very little body.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
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One of the most aggressive garden invaders, bindweed rapidly rambles through perennials and shrubs, creating a leafy tangle of stems and foliage.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
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Dense forests, bogs, and marshes create a rich habitat for wildlife—from trumpeter swans and bald eagles to deer and bears.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
7 July 2025
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The river had shallows, marshes, sandbars, oxbows, eddies, weed flats and drop offs, all of which created nurseries, hiding spots and ambush points for a food chain that included aquatic bugs, frogs, fish, turtles, alligators, deer, otters, panthers and eagles.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Wyoming’s wildlife agency, for example, traps and relocates conflict bears (or kills problem bears if allowed by the Fish and Wildlife Service), knocks on doors to calm nervous landowners, hands out bear spray, and reminds campers not to cook chili in their tents.—
Christine Peterson,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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The pricing trap: Most service businesses bill by the hour.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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That was soon followed by airborne training and then Ranger school, a notoriously grueling nine-week program that includes three weeks each at Fort Benning, in the mountains of Georgia, and in the swamps of Florida.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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The detention camp will place thousands of immigrants in wire cages in a humidity-intense swamp that is all but inaccessible to hospital ambulances, and where the summertime heat index can soar above 100 degrees.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
4 July 2025
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Iran’s nuclear and military capacity has been reduced, its network of proxies largely smashed, the friendly Assad regime in Syria gone, a quagmire resulting from regime change in Tehran avoided.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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After promising not to, Trump plunged us into another military quagmire.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
23 June 2025
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The park protects over 2,000 acres of longleaf pine forest, wetlands, and limestone springs, and its trails offer quiet, shaded walks year-round.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Most of his property was within 150 feet of the pond shoreline, the current wetlands boundary, which meant that extensive alterations would require a time-consuming variance application.—
Andrew Rice,
Curbed,
26 June 2025
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Pushing a tile onto the board pushes another off and creates new routes through the labyrinth.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
9 July 2025
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In the original, Emily, the enigmatic socialite, and Stephanie, the ever-eager mommy vlogger, navigated a labyrinth of secrets, betrayals, and, of course, a missing person.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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These moves chip away at the 188,000 pages bloating the Code of Federal Regulations, freeing businesses and families from bureaucratic quicksand.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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But the question of who’s going to kill or get killed ultimately proves less important than how their pasts have shaped these men — or rather trapped them, like quicksand.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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“Morass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morass. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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