pandora's box

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Recent Examples of pandora's box The procedural vote yesterday was our effort to advance President Trump's important legislative agenda while disabling a discharge petition that would force proxy voting and open a dangerous Pandora's box for the institution. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025 Advances in technology have opened an exciting possibility or perhaps stirred a Pandora's box. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 Meta's plan to generate synthetic content tailored to individual users — which attracted little notice this week amid a slew of product announcements — opens a whole new Pandora's box in an AI world already full of them. Ina Fried, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024 Both Cancer and Sagittarius possess a rich inner world similar to Pandora's box, each containing a wealth of complexities and unique attributes waiting to be explored. Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024 The police have had bomb disposal robots forever, but the Pandora's box of weaponizing them was originally opened by the Dallas Police Department. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2022 Blonde was a philosophical Pandora's box. Arabelle Sicardi, Allure, 19 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pandora's box
Noun
  • Most offer free trials, though access may vary depending on local ABC availability.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The plaintiffs argued that defense attorneys cannot legally present new facts when there has already been another trial that established a set of facts.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Four years later, an America-first cultural crackdown has freed the Met to cast off the hair shirt of reckoning and celebrate its diverse holdings in a spirit of defiance.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • This one is ideal for anyone who experiences GI discomfort when taking iron on an empty stomach.
    Kristine Thomason, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
  • As the Seventies began, Smile singer Tim Staffell quit, and Freddie officially joined the band, rechristening it Queen, to Taylor and May’s initial discomfort.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Darin' Dab Ghost Wings (Hot) — Bone-in or boneless wings dusted with a ghost pepper dry rub, served with a Last Dab Ranch dip cup.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Those are coated in Ghost Pepper dry rub.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Pandora's box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pandora%27s%20box. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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