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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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What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological background, suddenly becomes an inescapable trap.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 June 2025
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Mazzotti said iguanas love the color red — biologists often lure them into traps with red flowers, strawberries or even red marbles.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Other experimental drugs have targeted the tau tangles, a different protein that builds up inside nerve cells.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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Despite the sleek design of modern gadgets and the rise of wireless solutions, both businesses and consumers still live in a frustrating tangle of cables.—
Mark Vena,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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The main conservative candidate, Kim Moon Soo, has struggled to win over moderate, swing voters as his People Power Party remains in a quagmire of internal feuding over how to view Yoon's actions.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 June 2025
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The Squadron 42 quagmire The initial concept behind Squadron 42 was a tutorial segment that would gently introduce players to the game's mechanics and feed them some in-game rewards upon completion.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
2 June 2025
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The city’s extensive labyrinth of catacombs was nearby as well, underground ossuaries crammed full of the skeletal remains of millions of Parisians.—
Anelise Chen
June 3,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2025
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Infant formula is also highly regulated, presenting any new entrant with a labyrinth of hoops to jump through.—
Alisha Haridasani Gupta,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Florence illustrates the potential of the agentic AI approach when confronting the bureaucratic morass.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two kilometers across clogged the path of the River Lonza, causing a huge lake to form amid the wreckage and raising fears that the morass could dislodge.—
Dave Graham,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Elsewhere, Neo’s office building becomes a maze of cubicles.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
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The Mackenzie River Delta is a maze of lakes and waterways stretching hundreds of square miles.—
Gavin John,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
Noun
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Gi-seok had been caught up in the delicate web of power and deceit that holds Seoul’s two major gangs—the Juwoon Group and the Bongsan Group—in place.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Credential dumps from breached companies are traded daily on the dark web.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Humpback whales are native to the mid-Atlantic region and boat strikes are a leading cause of death, along with entanglement with fishing gear, NOAA Fisheries reports.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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Disappoint Me, by Nicola Danin May 27 Nicola Danin’s first novel, the Lambda finalist Bellies, was a gorgeous tale of platonic entanglement and first love.—
Isle McElroy,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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