as in traps
something that catches and holds
mired in the quicksand of credit card debt
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This is because the infrastructure of the city traps in all of the heat that built up during the day, thus preventing a normal nocturnal cooldown seen in non-urban settings.
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One of the biggest traps organizations fall into is assuming employees already know what behaviors are valued.
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This Levoit vacuum just dropped under $200, and its impressive ability to pick up hair without any tangles is a pet owner’s dream.
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Tuohy found that only our top overall robovac pick, the Matic, did a better job on hard surfaces, while the Saros 20’s DuoDivide brush is designed to resist hair tangles, reducing the amount of maintenance required.
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These familiar, turbulent morasses of swirling droplets continue to stymie scientists.
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Jeane used the example not to say that any of the three were in danger of closing, but to point out one of the enrollment quagmires in the district that covers 70 square miles.
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Despite a few diversions along the way, Minney keeps returning to craft as a solution to fashion’s many quagmires.
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Zelizer said Trump’s financial entanglements might be the most monarchical part of his administration.
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The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George Washington used his farewell address to warn his countrymen against permanent foreign entanglements.
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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
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There has to be a chance that Jos Buttler’s toils in Sri Lanka and India represent his last ventures on the international stage, and therefore the end of an era.
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Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.
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Further down the street, a troupe of drummers held court with a mix of snares and bass.
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Studio engineers often added percussion accents like shakers or tambourines, or handclaps layered on the snares, using a combination of texture and mathematical precision to keep heads and hips moving.
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“Quicksands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksands. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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