PRIMROSE PATH Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

primrose path

noun

Definition of primrose path

as in hog heaven

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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 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 See All Example Sentences for primrose path

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Noun

Designers and architects who specialize in lighting design must be in hog heaven.

— Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026
Pictured grinning on the big screens, Perazzo looked to be in hog heaven.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 19 May 2024

Definition of hog heaven

Noun

The Bruins lived on easy street for more than a decade.

— Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 8 May 2026
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

Definition of easy street

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Much of the league’s hopes for the future rest on the development of young talents like McKibbin, Josele Ballester, Caleb Surratt and Michael La Sasso, but who knows if those players want to commit to an unstable path.

— Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Kramatorsk has long served as a strategic rear point for the Ukrainian units serving along the eastern front lines – and as a place to which exhausted troops can retreat for a few days of rest before their next mission.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

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Whether hitting the sand or enjoying a fall picnic, CoolCabanas lightweight design is made so that one person can set up or pack it down in under two minutes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Sinéty developed a knack for finding within quotidian domestic and village scenes—a woman brushing her hair, a picnic in the sun—a dreamlike sense of mystery.

— Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

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