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

Noun

Bessent's Treasury Department is ratcheting up pressure on financial institutions as part of its effort to choke off trade and financial flows between Iran and rest of the world, fueling speculation that Chinese banks could be targeted.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
To spoil more of the joke’s punch lines would be criminal, but rest assured her son eventually confronts her about it.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of rest

Noun

His exhibition of some of its contents at Palo, in the East Village, keeps the focus of our attention on his black-and-white photographs, which hold it with a sense of ease that never undermines their moody soulfulness.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
The gown was cast in a dark liquorice color, with an A-line silhouette and vented back for ease of movement.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026

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