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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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as in marshes

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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In the nearly 3,000 patients who donated their brains to science, the brains of those who took estrogen were less likely to show neurobiological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, such as beta-amyloid plaques or tangles of tau protein.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
An overabundance of the SORLA protein protected against a number of biological processes linked to the formation of tau tangles and progression of neurodegeneration.

— Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026

Definition of tangles

Noun

There’s also mix of vegetation and freshwater marshes near the beating heart of the city.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026
Much of Corona, Flushing, Elmhurst, and East Elmhurst were built on low-lying marshes and meadows along the once four-mile-long Flushing River.

— Len Maniace, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of marshes

Noun

In 1998, voters passed Proposition 4, which banned certain traps and animal poisons for recreational and commercial animal trapping.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
As the school year started and drivers tiptoed into new routines or back into old ones a couple of theoretical bear traps snapped down this past Tuesday in Cobb County.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of traps

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The trails meander through forests and wetlands, beneath bridges, and down to the river.

— Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
The environmental plan includes restoring more than 33 acres of wetlands, revitalizing coastal dunes and mangrove ecosystems, and expanding bird habitats.

— Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 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

Noun

But bad ideas are like those Hollywood horror movies in which monsters always reemerge from the swamps to terrorize us again.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
This member of the Colubridae family of snakes is found in mangrove swamps and tropical lowland forests from the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of swamps

Noun

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
Despite a few diversions along the way, Minney keeps returning to craft as a solution to fashion’s many quagmires.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of quagmires

Noun

Not to mention the foreign business entanglements of his family members.

— James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
The conditions that allowed MAHA to flourish—the trust deficit, the corporate entanglements, the gap between research and community, the invisibility of public health in people’s daily lives—have been festering for decades.

— Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026

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