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Recent Examples of quicksand
Relying solely on perks in such an environment is like building a castle on quicksand.
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Ankita Singh, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Escaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Of course academics and other people with more regular artist jobs can get harried, but then again so can artists trying to string together work on quicksand!
—Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
The Zags, a perennial powerhouse and long the best team in the West, looked like they were stuck in quicksand all night.
—Lindsay Schnell, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ankita Singh, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Escaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Of course academics and other people with more regular artist jobs can get harried, but then again so can artists trying to string together work on quicksand!
—Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
The Zags, a perennial powerhouse and long the best team in the West, looked like they were stuck in quicksand all night.
—Lindsay Schnell, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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So organizations often fall into the trap of title inflation to retain or attract talent, which breeds entitlement, short-term thinking and cultures that don't support employees' well-being.—
Tonushree Mondal,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Set traps: Place traps in the garage to catch any rodents that get in.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2025
Noun
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All of our experts agree that silk and satin bonnets protect hair from the harsh friction caused by cotton pillowcases, which can lead to dryness, tangles, frizz, and breakage over time.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
5 Apr. 2025
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But after the onset of dementia with high tau tangles, anti-tau therapy or one of the many other experimental approaches may be more effective.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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After 19 months of war in Gaza, the Israeli government has decided to march deeper into the quagmire.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025
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This environmental quagmire has persisted for more than 20 years in this rural part of the state, where 72.4% of the population is Black and the median household income is $35,160, according to the latest census; one-third of residents live below the poverty line.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
1 May 2025
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But we could just as easily get lost in El Born and the Gothic Quarter’s labyrinths, looking for dumplings or the best Catalan restaurant.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
6 May 2025
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The rehearsal space for the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra is three levels below a parking garage, amid a labyrinth of dingy hallways and exposed ceiling pipes.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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What happened next has become a matter of intrigue and resulted in a sprawling legal morass that has consumed Hollywood and sparked intense public interest.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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And then, in 2010, Inna died without any children or a will, leaving behind a morass of 20,000 books, manuscripts, files and correspondence in their cluttered Bronx apartment.—
Joseph Berger,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Bryce Canyon is a colorful maze of spires, cliffs and ravines eroded in soft rock and soil at the edge of a plateau.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
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But now the 55-year-old beleaguered mogul — worth as much as $1 billion just three years ago — spends his days moving with little fanfare through the maze of hallways and rooms that make up the federal justice system, his once-black hair and beard faded to gray.—
Danielle Bacher,
People.com,
2 May 2025
Noun
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One web company, Meta, has explored Ethernet fabrics for AI clusters as well as InfiniBand, an alternative networking standard pioneered partly by Mellanox, a networking hardware maker that Nvidia acquired for $7 billion in 2020.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
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Proton Mail wipes out web beacons, which are images that have no purpose beyond penetrating your privacy.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
14 May 2025
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Critics argue that such entanglements could influence U.S. foreign policy decisions, underscoring the need for transparency and ethical considerations.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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Even among those who champion digital asset innovation, there is growing recognition that legislation this consequential cannot be rushed, especially while ethical questions surrounding the President’s financial entanglements remain unresolved.—
Tonya M. Evans,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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