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quicksands

noun

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

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksands
  1. traps
  2. tangles
  3. morasses
  4. quagmires
  5. entanglements
  6. labyrinths
  7. toils
  8. snares
Noun
  • Governments in the region launched a massive response, including traps, sniffer dogs, drone surveillance and most importantly, sterile flies.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The direct heat helps re-crisp the bottom of the crust, while the lid traps heat, so the cheese and toppings warm through without the crust becoming excessively dry.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of traps
Noun
  • Sazan is a rugged place—strewn with rocks and tangles of trees, populated by a large colony of rats, and studded with bunkers built by the Marxist dictator Enver Hoxha to defend against an imaginary invasion.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Alice and her old friend Danny (Scoot McNairy, outstanding, like everyone else), who is still a New York cop, work through professional and personal tangles.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of tangles
Noun
  • These familiar, turbulent morasses of swirling droplets continue to stymie scientists.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Definition of morasses
Noun
  • At heart, structures and incentives pull Washington back, repeatedly, to avoidable quagmires.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
  • 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.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of quagmires
Noun
  • Cassidy Teufel, deputy director at the coastal commission, said during a review of the project that seaweed farms use taut, rigid lines, not the loose fishing lines that are a leading cause of whale entanglements.
    — Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The film concerns a bus full of French high-school seniors on a trip to Pompeii, where the long gaze of history meets their hormonal entanglements and a bunch of Freudian desire.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of entanglements
Noun
  • And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.
    — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of labyrinths
Noun
  • The gods themselves are also an unnerving presence, omnipresent beings of colossal power who see humans as their playthings and view Ulysses' toils as some twisted spectator sport.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of toils
Noun
  • The team covers 6 to 12 miles a day on foot, tracking poachers and their snares.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Recounting her boyfriend calling the police on her during their fraught break-up, the chorus rings out over rowdy snares like a brutal playground taunt.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
Definition of snares
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“Quicksands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksands. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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