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Recent Examples of primrose path
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.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Therefore, when the same phrases are associated with AI, we are led down the primrose path that the AI must also be human or sentient.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
You have been walked down a primrose path.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
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
The primrose path to relevance has been strewn with injuries and other baseball hobgoblins.
—Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Therefore, when the same phrases are associated with AI, we are led down the primrose path that the AI must also be human or sentient.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
You have been walked down a primrose path.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
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
The primrose path to relevance has been strewn with injuries and other baseball hobgoblins.
—Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for primrose path
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Pictured grinning on the big screens, Perazzo looked to be in hog heaven.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 May 2024
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His job is to solve the porcine behavior problems that complicate pig production--problems like tail-biting, the nastier results of which can actually send prospective smoky links on an untimely trip to hog heaven.—
Judith Stone,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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Cooper was good about giving Vasilevskiy, who has one Vezina (2018-19), one Conn Smythe (2021) and a pair of Cup rings to his credit, sufficient rest as Jonas Johansson made 18 starts.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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At the time, a rep for the band told media outlets that Starkey was advised to take blood thinners for two weeks and rest to prevent additional clots.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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If Belinda’s lightning-fast transformation is a cipher for Mike White’s thoughts on the corrosive power of money, then perhaps Laurie’s emotional speech comes closest to explaining how a good life could be oriented.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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Image The Jews had a good life in Budapest, or what counts for a good life for Jews in Europe around that time.—
Gabra Zackman Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Some of the best picnic spots require a hike to get there, but that’s no problem with this picnic backpack.—
Anne Taylor,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
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That was shattered around 2:30 p.m. IST when assailants emerged from the woods and began riddling the picnic spot with gunfire.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Day 3, morning: A nation on edge, a family at ease The Sanders family never succumbed to negativity in the public throughout the historic slide and cruel prank.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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After years of waiting for pandemic-era inflation to ease, prices are set to surge again.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
25 Apr. 2025
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