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Recent Examples of quicksand
However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.
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Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Lawsuits piling up from unions and states underscore the legal quicksand Musk has stepped into.
California cannot afford such recklessness.
—Zac Townsend, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
True educational opportunity requires not just access to loans, but a system that doesn't trap families in financial quicksand for generations.
—Alison Griffin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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Nate Bennett, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Lawsuits piling up from unions and states underscore the legal quicksand Musk has stepped into.
California cannot afford such recklessness.
—Zac Townsend, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
True educational opportunity requires not just access to loans, but a system that doesn't trap families in financial quicksand for generations.
—Alison Griffin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
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Furthermore, Indigenous peoples used Amelanchier branches to craft arrow shafts, baskets, ropes, fish traps, and tools for unearthing root crops, writes Jeffrey A. Hart.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
27 June 2025
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Wyoming’s wildlife agency, for example, traps and relocates conflict bears (or kills problem bears if allowed by the Fish and Wildlife Service), knocks on doors to calm nervous landowners, hands out bear spray, and reminds campers not to cook chili in their tents.—
Christine Peterson,
Vox,
27 June 2025
Noun
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In my experience, most sea salt sprays require some sort of trade-off: either tons of volume but tangles, or great wave definition but very little body.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
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One of the most aggressive garden invaders, bindweed rapidly rambles through perennials and shrubs, creating a leafy tangle of stems and foliage.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
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After promising not to, Trump plunged us into another military quagmire.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
23 June 2025
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Here the film, like Clémence’s life, forks into two: One part of her carries on her professional, personal and romantic life, the other takes on the near-full-time job of fighting through a legal quagmire to have her maternal rights restored.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2025
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Each insurance company seems to have its own labyrinth of portals and billing procedures.—
Paulina Wierzbicka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, in a labyrinth of fortified tunnels outside the city of Natanz, centrifuges spun at speeds too fast for the eye to track.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
19 June 2025
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There are no pairs of tidily poetic contradictions, but a morass of inner conflict, uncertainty, pain, and relief.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 2025
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Tax administration is often written off as a bureaucratic morass—a neutral, technocratic function made necessary by the modern state but best kept as small as possible.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The Las Vegas location will open with four haunted mazes.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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The locations are based on Universal’s successful Halloween Horror Nights in Florida and California, which feature elaborate haunted houses and mazes.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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Identity Theft companies can monitor personal information like your Social Security Number (SSN), phone number, and email address and alert you if it is being sold on the dark web or being used to open an account.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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This content uses JavaScript and WebGL features that are not supported or blocked by your web browser or device.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Hers is a direct critique of the banalities of global capitalism and its entanglement with labor and production, told through a body of work that is at once familiar yet strange, moving between the real and the fictional to fascinating and powerful effect.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Their fearlessness is grounded in training and in seeing the Middle East as a limited operation in the future, after more than two decades of divisive and protracted entanglements — in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond — which Trump had campaigned on ending.—
Adam Carlson,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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