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Recent Examples of quicksand
Though admittedly macabre, each attempt — think plane crashes, elevator ambushes, and even death by quicksand — features trademark Andersonian humor and comical loopholes to Korda's safety, that, gruesome or not, can't help but make one smile.
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EW.com, 6 June 2025
Two-thirds of the season remains, and the quicksand and trap doors will eventually get someone, if only because that’s how pitching works.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 June 2025
However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.
—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
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EW.com, 6 June 2025
Two-thirds of the season remains, and the quicksand and trap doors will eventually get someone, if only because that’s how pitching works.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 2 June 2025
However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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There is 24/7 surveillance on these traps so the FWNC&R team can see if one is set off.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Aug. 2025
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Cleanup brush and leaf piles, which provide excellent cover for voles. Use a trap.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At the river’s edge, a quarter-mile-long Mitsubishi factory was a mountainous tangle of steel.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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In contrast with the tangle of criminal cases which mostly stalled against Trump, Brazilian courts moved swiftly against Bolsonaro, threatening to end his political career and fracture his right-wing movement.—
Ricardo Brito,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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These more standard Core Ultra mobile laptop chips avoid this quagmire entirely, leaving that sort of experience to vendors like Framework.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
26 July 2025
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Computer technology had gotten us into this millennial quagmire, and, therefore, it would not be trusted to extricate us from it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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But these products were accompanied by a labyrinth of names and uses: GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini and GPT-4.1; o1-mini and o1-pro; o3 and o3-pro and o4-mini; and so on.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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For over two decades, search engines have served as ubiquitous routers directing billions of clickers through the labyrinth of the internet.—
Perry Carpenter,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Noun
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That failure is symbolized most starkly in the mute dissolution of his own group, formed to help save Chicago from its pension morass but which instead silently acquiesced in making that threat markedly worse.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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The complexities of the issues and the broad array of competing stakeholders, along with lawsuits which often delay progress for years at a time, all combine to create a permitting morass which is extremely hard to untangle.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Other new attractions coming this fall will include a haunted maze, scare zone and live show.—
Sydney Sasser,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Aug. 2025
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The length of any single path could be unimaginably long and require taking millions or even billions of steps in the maze, says Sergei Gukov, the recent study’s senior author and a professor of mathematics at Caltech.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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They would then be redirected to their bank, which would not know which web site the request had some from, and required to log in.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Adapted for web by Destinee Adams and edited by Suzanne Nuyen.—
Michel Martin,
NPR,
4 Aug. 2025
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Devon would be a welcome way out of all this entanglement, but can James see a path forward with Dani?—
Ryan Coleman Published,
EW.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Many foreign leaders, lobbyists, and executives who might otherwise have paid handsomely for the Trump hotel’s location and luxury stayed elsewhere, fearing entanglement in an influence scandal.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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