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Recent Examples of quicksandTrue educational opportunity requires not just access to loans, but a system that doesn't trap families in financial quicksand for generations.—Alison Griffin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 Relying solely on perks in such an environment is like building a castle on quicksand.—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 See All Example Sentences for quicksand
Researchers reviewing camera trap footage from a remote island off Panama found that a group of adolescent capuchin monkeys were routinely kidnapping baby howler monkeys and carrying them around like accessories.
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Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
18 June 2025
One of the key challenges for companies is avoiding the trap of performative activism—actions that appear supportive but lack meaningful impact.
After promising not to, Trump plunged us into another military quagmire.
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John Seiler,
Oc Register,
23 June 2025
Here the film, like Clémence’s life, forks into two: One part of her carries on her professional, personal and romantic life, the other takes on the near-full-time job of fighting through a legal quagmire to have her maternal rights restored.
There are no pairs of tidily poetic contradictions, but a morass of inner conflict, uncertainty, pain, and relief.
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Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 2025
Tax administration is often written off as a bureaucratic morass—a neutral, technocratic function made necessary by the modern state but best kept as small as possible.
Our micro-scale community web has resulted in strong relationships, new businesses, cleaner streets, a sense of safety and the ability to rally for greater causes than any of us could do alone.
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Anastasia G Mcateer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2025
That future web is one in which most people and organizations depend on AI for most tasks.
Some lawmakers, including Senator Lindsey Graham, have advocated for stronger U.S. military support for Israel, while others warn against entanglement in a Middle East conflict.
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Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
What Hegseth has focused on so far The panel zeroed in on funding issues, with only a few mentions of other entanglements that have marked Hegseth’s early months.
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Lolita C. Baldor,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2025
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