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Recent Examples of quicksand
And yet those tracks are laid on quicksand.
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David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
For anyone who wants the contouring feel of memory foam without the full quicksand effect, the Saatva Loom & Leaf makes a strong case.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
The National Park Service issued a warning about the presence of hazardous quicksand areas near the shoreline and at drainages in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which spans across both Arizona and Utah.
—Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
Rain made last year’s M3F a soggy mess with way too many opportunities for getting sucked into the mud like quicksand.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
For anyone who wants the contouring feel of memory foam without the full quicksand effect, the Saatva Loom & Leaf makes a strong case.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
The National Park Service issued a warning about the presence of hazardous quicksand areas near the shoreline and at drainages in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which spans across both Arizona and Utah.
—Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
Rain made last year’s M3F a soggy mess with way too many opportunities for getting sucked into the mud like quicksand.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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The plants may have to be removed and monitoring traps may be placed in the area.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
31 May 2026
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Sinner with his changes of direction that turned neutral rallies into traps.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
Noun
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Before 2014, bull kelp—a whip-like kelp with bulbous air bladders and trailing blades —stretched across Northern California’s coastline in dense tangles.—
Tatjana Baleta,
Time,
28 May 2026
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Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen rounded out the podium after a tangle of their own, marking the Briton’s highest finish for Ferrari and the Dutchman’s first podium of the season.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Noun
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With a day to digest the defeat, the Spurs’ message at Thursday’s media session was that their play in Game 1 was out of character, especially in a 40-point quagmire of a second half.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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The government of Netanyahu is now leading the country into another potential quagmire in Lebanon.—
Asher Kaufman,
The Conversation,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Discover the labyrinth, a quiet space dedicated to meditation and mindfulness.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
28 May 2026
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The hotel comprises a labyrinth of historic and contemporary buildings, connected by leafy tropical gardens.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
21 May 2026
Noun
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The massive language model is a morass of words connecting to other words.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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These elements and more could help move the needle on the nation’s housing morass.—
Alex Schwartz,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Historically, the back office of healthcare has been a complex choreography of coverage rules, eligibility checks, prior authorizations, discounts and payments, as well as a maze of manual processes, proprietary systems and fragmented stakeholders.—
Bill Oldham,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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While untreated cockroaches tended to stay in sections containing food, cyborg cockroaches equipped with the ISC platform were able to continue navigating through the entire maze, demonstrating the system’s ability to guide movement without overriding the insects’ natural behavior.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
Noun
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Its partner-rival OpenAI has had plans to combine its ChatGPT app and its Codex coding tool with its web browser into a single destination.—
Sebastian Herrera,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
29 May 2026
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However, once Venus enters Leo, your intimate affairs and emotional entanglements get hotter, messier and impossible to ignore.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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The gates made the code magical, letting the entanglement for space and the entanglement for matter affect each other.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 June 2026
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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