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morasses

noun

plural of morass

as in tangles

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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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 morasses These familiar, turbulent morasses of swirling droplets continue to stymie scientists. — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025

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Sticky beta-amyloid can build into brain-clogging plaque over decades, eventually spurring neuron-killing tau tangles that lead to symptoms.

— Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Sazan is a rugged place—strewn with rocks and tangles of trees, populated by a large colony of rats, and studded with bunkers built by the Marxist dictator Enver Hoxha to defend against an imaginary invasion.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of tangles

Noun

Frith has three friends with her when she’s first seen traversing the marshes.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
The fly population explosion is due to warm, humid weather and westerly winds that have pushed the pests out of the marshes, experts say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of marshes

Noun

The Parker River National Widllife Refuge was established in 1971 and is home to more than 4,700 acres of wetlands, beaches, dunes, forests, bogs, salt marshes and mud flats.

— Neal Riley, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Duncaster changed the footprint of the cottage homes and cut the count to 30, and in late August won approval from the town’s inland wetlands commission for that part of the project.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of wetlands

Noun

And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

Definition of labyrinths

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Staying safe from alligators in Florida Alligators have inhabited Florida's marshes, swamps, rivers and lakes for centuries and are found in all of Florida's 67 counties.

— Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Stories — real or not — circulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries of White people using Black children as bait while hunting in Florida’s swamps.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of swamps

Noun

At heart, structures and incentives pull Washington back, repeatedly, to avoidable quagmires.

— Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
Jeane used the example not to say that any of the three were in danger of closing, but to point out one of the enrollment quagmires in the district that covers 70 square miles.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of quagmires

Noun

Cassidy Teufel, deputy director at the coastal commission, said during a review of the project that seaweed farms use taut, rigid lines, not the loose fishing lines that are a leading cause of whale entanglements.

— Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The film concerns a bus full of French high-school seniors on a trip to Pompeii, where the long gaze of history meets their hormonal entanglements and a bunch of Freudian desire.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

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