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 Opening the Pandora's box will come at a heavy cost for the U.S. government and its allies. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 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 There is also the possibility that the AI worries that humans will open Pandora's box. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023 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
  • Her late father was a defense attorney for the defensed in former NFL player O.J. Simpson's murder trial.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Ventura previously testified that Combs explicitly threatened to destroy Mescudi's car during her testimony at the trial last week, multiple outlets reported.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • 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, 23 Apr. 2025
  • And that gave birth to the worst Wolverine, which also gave birth to the idea that the suit is a hair shirt.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This discomfort isn't evenly distributed across all AI applications.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Digestion slows at night and laying flat after eating can lead to physical discomforts like heartburn and reflux.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Visitors can step into a foodie paradise featuring high-quality ingredients from honeys and oils to spice & sauce seasoning and BBQ rubs, delectable street food from Peru, Korea, India, Turkey, Scandinavia and more.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Students would also study flavor development, in which the Neales created a seasoning decoder that breaks down 400 different rubs into various flavor profiles.
    Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Pandora's box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pandora%27s%20box. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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