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 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 There are reasons the 2026 Giants aren’t trapped in the same quicksand as the Mets, Phillies or Red Sox, and those reasons are encouraging. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026 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 The National Park Service issued a warning about the presence of hazardous quicksand areas near the shoreline and at drainages in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which spans across both Arizona and Utah. — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quicksand

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Noun

The heat wave is making a bad air-quality situation worse as a high-pressure system traps soot and fine particles close to the ground instead of dispersing them.

— Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The safety car came out to allow the Red Bull to be recovered from the gravel trap it was parked in.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

Definition of trap

Noun

They’re immediately pulled into a tangle of police reports, hospital notifications, insurance calls, and legal questions that can feel impossible to sort through while grieving.

— William Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
Richie Laryea for Canada burst into the box in a good position but was brought to ground amid a tangle of legs with South Africa’s Khuliso Mudau.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 28 June 2026

Definition of tangle

Noun

Such interpretations help sustain a story that still feels like a reinterpretation of the original series, providing outlets for original thought in a quagmire of iteration.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
SpaceX is, however, facing competition from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which is building a lander hat hews much closer to the simpler, Apollo-era lunar landers than the gargantuan, engineering quagmire that is Starship.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 June 2026

Definition of quagmire

Noun

Old school computer gamers will be intimately familiar with the dungeon crawler genre, popularized by games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder, which involves moving in first-person on a grid, taking on monsters, finding treasure and delving deeper into a labyrinth.

— Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
Under the streets of Paris, a 75-mile labyrinth of pipes is at work trying to keep the parts of the city cool.

— Francois de Beaupuy, Fortune, 28 June 2026

Definition of labyrinth

Noun

Infrastructure costs and decreasing water sales left the authority with a budget morass and few options but to keep piling on big rate increases.

— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2026
Though many might assume that the FDA is right on top of the morass of AI apps that claim to provide mental health or well-being advisement, this is decidedly not the case.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 June 2026

Definition of morass

Noun

Located in a pasture that extends from outside her winter house all the way down to her long boxwood allée, the maze is now near completion, with her gardeners and outdoor grounds crew having just planted the last section.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 2 July 2026
With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of maze

Noun

Common threats include biotoxins, chemical contaminants, disease, and fishing gear entanglements, experts say.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
Speaking in Portugal this week, Warsh seemed keen to move the Fed through judicial entanglements and get on with the task at hand.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026

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