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
  • In some of the most high-profile cases to come to trial, the perpetrators were men of Pakistani heritage, and the issue has been taken up by right-of-center politicians including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, and stoked by Musk, who took to X to condemn Starmer over the issue.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025
  • In addition, the diets might not work as well outside of this trial setting, where meals were prepared for all of the participants.
    Simon Spichak, Health, 14 June 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, 19 June 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
  • The discomfort of starting over became the foundation of everything that mattered afterward.
    Kirsten Ludwig, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Both require flexibility and patience, and sometimes dealing with the discomfort of bad weather, insects, heavy backpacks, malfunctioning equipment, and even boredom.
    Sarah Boon June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • During cross-examination, Jane testified that Combs enjoyed foot rubs and episodes of his favorite show Dateline.
    Janelle Griffith, People.com, 10 June 2025
  • As noted above, there is a rub to connecting, enabling and activating networks.
    Barry Libert, Forbes.com, 27 May 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 Jun. 2025.

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