rabbit hole

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Recent Examples of rabbit hole These are all statements said in an attempt to draw concern from you to contact the source of the email and fall into the rabbit hole the scammers have dug. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025 If your behavior has changed, really go down that rabbit hole and investigate what’s going on with your hormones. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Sep. 2025 The crime comedy focuses on siblings Megan and Nathan who discover a dead body, long buried in their parents’ basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025 Based on the Pennsylvania haunting of the Smurl family, the film sent him down a research rabbit hole to find out all about the Warrens – a fascination that eventually turned into a hugely successful horror-movie universe. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rabbit hole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbit hole
Noun
  • Her bi-monthly AI Logs column explores the latest trends, breakthroughs, and ethical dilemmas in AI, delivering expert analysis and fresh insights.
    The AI Insider, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Economists often refer to such situations as a prisoner’s dilemma, in which individuals, businesses, or countries could theoretically benefit from coöperating with one another but also have, or are presented with, incentives to act selfishly and cut their own deals.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When Peterson pitches, the Mets need to catch the ball, but their poor defense is a major reason for their predicament.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Closures usually only come when a district is facing a financial crisis, and Pollio said JCPS was not in that predicament at the time.
    Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Flavors range from classic dill and bread and butter to the more exotic like maple bourbon, gin, and sweet ginger pickles.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone who has hung out at Cerebral Brewing over the past year is familiar with Outside Pizza, a vintage green and white teardrop trailer that serves Neopolitan-style pies (including the cult favorite pickle pizza) to hungry beer drinkers.
    The Know, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Subscribe now Over the summer, it was widely reported that Reeves was considering a bank windfall tax to shore up a multibillion-pound hole in the public finances.
    Hugh Leask,Chloe Taylor,Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps Gad will fill a furry hole in the heart of the film.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But options exist to help people manage the bind, depending on income.
    Caitlin McGlade, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The meeting comes as the central bank is in a bit of a bind, given the recent uptick in inflation that has coincided with a weakening of the job market.
    Zev Fima,Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Timm’s garden is a milkweed buffet with seven different kinds planted throughout, like swamp, ice ballet, cinderella, prairie, poke, common and butterfly milkweed.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time in 10 years, researchers have discovered a new species of Xenurolebias killifish from an isolated swamp about 2 feet deep in eastern Brazil.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 23, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Officials in Wisconsin credited teachers for locking doors and shepherding children into classroom corners when a gunman opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in 2024, killing three people and injured six.
    Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • As Hughes is preparing to take the corner, Richards attacks the back-post zone and Munoz dashes towards the near post to occupy Kyle Walker-Peters.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Rabbit hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit%20hole. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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