Thesaurus results for QUICKSAND

quicksand

noun

ˈkwik-ˌsand

Definition of quicksand

as in trap

something that catches and holds mired in the quicksand of credit card debt

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Recent Examples of quicksand In hydra-like fashion, Carr’s agenda saw Jimmy Kimmel pulled into political and cultural quicksand last year as Nexstar pulled the ABC late-night host off its stations for more than a week. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026 Such fluidity also extends to Amrum itself, where the land and water ebb and flow into one another, forming mudflats and murky patches of quicksand. — David Opie, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026 In our view, the only way to escape this play-in quicksand is to pick one of the three aforementioned paths. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026 And maybe that's how to escape the loyalty quicksand. — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quicksand

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Noun

The team is analyzing microplastics painstakingly collected from plants, rocks, water samples and sticky traps erected along the shoreline.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
This kit makes both jobs simple with tools for cleaning up to 15-foot vents with flexible rods, specialty brushes that fit inside lint traps, and tweezers to reach into all the nooks and crannies.

— Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of trap

Noun

Penske has designed tracks through city blocks, but never through both federal and municipal grounds with a tangle of buildings that include the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Archives.

— Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
The diminutive Taiwanese market-slash-lunch counter Taiwan Best Mart’s cold sesame noodles ($13) are a refreshing tangle of cucumbers, carrots, cilantro, scallions, sesame seeds, flour noodles and the market’s house sesame sauce.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of tangle

Noun

The dirt infield was a muddy quagmire, which drew the ire of the typically mild-mannered Bart Starr, then head coach of the Packers.

— Jim Reineking, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
But more than four years later, the invasion has turned into a quagmire that has crushed the Kremlin’s finances.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of quagmire

Noun

Tomorrow’s sessions are similar, with the addition of a fly-fishing casting lesson and a meditative stroll around the on-site labyrinth.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2026
Carmen receives them with love and displays them in that labyrinth of Cuban-ness, as colorful and sometimes as moving as the nation’s history and its exile.

— Sarah Moreno August 7, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of labyrinth

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The platform, which is now in beta, aims to give its users a one-stop shop to create games and publish them for mobile and web platforms, with support for TVs and Steam coming soon, and monetize them.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026
The bootloading process is now streamlined enough that it can be completed without any downloads through a web interface after connecting the headset to a PC.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of web

Noun

His sliding popularity, flip-flopping on key personnel decisions, and entanglement in corruption allegations, have taken their toll on his poll ratings.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Unlike circuits that store classical bits, qubits can exhibit strange phenomena like superposition and entanglement that give them extra computational power.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of entanglement

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