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 No one felt that way after Game 3’s third-period morass. 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 See All Example Sentences for morass
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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
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  • The potential environmental hazards also bleed into other aspects of Everglades life, including a robust tourism industry where hikers walk trails and explore the marshes on airboats, said Floridians for Public Lands founder Jessica Namath, who attended the protest.
    Makiya Seminera, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • At the same time, Louisiana’s marshes are eroding, and its coastline is fraying.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
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  • Furthermore, Indigenous peoples used Amelanchier branches to craft arrow shafts, baskets, ropes, fish traps, and tools for unearthing root crops, writes Jeffrey A. Hart.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2025
  • Wolves are killed across the Northern Rockies using steel-jawed traps, neck snares, packs of dogs and even snowmobiles.
    Jim Martin, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
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  • Habitats can change, too; should someone drain that Sudbury shrub swamp, the Appalachian Brown would disappear.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • This prehistoric swamp will enchant you even before the mind-melting sunset begins.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 29 May 2025
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  • After promising not to, Trump plunged us into another military quagmire.
    John Seiler, Oc Register, 23 June 2025
  • Here the film, like Clémence’s life, forks into two: One part of her carries on her professional, personal and romantic life, the other takes on the near-full-time job of fighting through a legal quagmire to have her maternal rights restored.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2025
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  • The empty shoreline where volunteers worked in May was previously a thick mangrove wetland, before Hurricane Ian devastated the Fort Myers area in 2022.
    Christina Kelso, New York Times, 24 June 2025
  • In the long term, Caltrans has a plan to replace the current road with an elevated causeway that would move vehicles above the wetlands below.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025
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  • 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
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  • Two-thirds of the season remains, and the quicksand and trap doors will eventually get someone, if only because that’s how pitching works.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.
    Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025

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

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