primrose path

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Recent Examples of primrose path There are 700 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, and perhaps billions of users when adding in the usage of competing LLMs, all of whom are potentially being led down a primrose path by AI. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 The use of words like understands, thinks, and reasons are all subtle and sneaky ways to lead you down a primrose path to believing that contemporary AI is sentient. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024 Houston is trying to become the first men’s team in more than a decade to play in a Final Four in its hometown, but even though the Cougars have a No. 1 seed, their path home for a championship is hardly a stroll along a primrose path. The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023 And a few surface-level parallels between President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor in the 1990s suggest some perils for Republicans expecting a primrose path to the White House in 2024. Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023 Seventy-one years later one can reasonably ask: Has any other couture house traveled the primrose path of fashion with such enduring cultivation, refinement and romance? WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for primrose path
Noun
  • Pictured grinning on the big screens, Perazzo looked to be in hog heaven.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • Thank hog heaven for Arkansas.
    Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • While most of Waymo's miles are on the easy streets of Phoenix, having no injury liability in 22 miles is a very impressive result, particuarly when coming from a 3rd party.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • No less effective for artistic expression, just shorter-lasting than the big guns, shaving sprays and stickers were easy street art flexes.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • The principle of relativity would later show up in Newton’s work as his first law of motion, where an object at rest would remain at rest and an object in motion would remain in constant motion, and would do so forever, unless and until either of them was acted upon by an outside (net) force.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That is empowering — better rest is in your control.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Just living a good life is great enough.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the debate still begins at the billion-dollar mark, when the difference between a good life and limitless accumulation starts much earlier.
    Scott Ellis, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Taste traditionally prepared dishes at the pioneer picnic, join in frontier festivities, toss tomahawks and enjoy family-friendly games.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This musical adaptation reimagines the story of a group of teenage schoolgirls who go on a picnic to the foreboding Hanging Rock through a female lens.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • What changed modern warfare was not necessarily the most advanced weapon per se, but rather that the Sherman enabled large-scale mechanized operations, thanks to its ease of production, repair, logistics support, and global deployment across multiple theaters.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • These palazzo pants strike the perfect balance between polish and ease, with a silky drape that looks good, even after long travel days.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Primrose path.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primrose%20path. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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