as in hell
a state in which everything is out of order
finally managed to crawl out of the snake pit of her drug addiction
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Recent Examples of snake pit
Inside the museum, visitors can climb into a snake pit, tour a collection of global oddities and attend expert presentations in the building's historic courtroom, per the event website.
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The series, which used to air on Fox and USA before pivoting to Netflix this year, takes four couples on rocky ground, splits them up, and puts them into a snake pit of singles whose only goal is to tempt.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
The film is imbued with a satirical tone that portrays Argentinian society as being a snake pit of corruption and violence.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2024
But as television has become more varied and ambitious across the streaming era, Curb has remained reliable in its formula, cataloguing the social improprieties and conversational snake pits that make up modern life.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The series, which used to air on Fox and USA before pivoting to Netflix this year, takes four couples on rocky ground, splits them up, and puts them into a snake pit of singles whose only goal is to tempt.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
The film is imbued with a satirical tone that portrays Argentinian society as being a snake pit of corruption and violence.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2024
But as television has become more varied and ambitious across the streaming era, Curb has remained reliable in its formula, cataloguing the social improprieties and conversational snake pits that make up modern life.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snake pit
Noun
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As Bellocchio shows, overnight Tortora’s life became a living hell, one that would go on, in prisons and courts and in the tabloids, for years.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
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Sold to Menemsha, genuinely tense and gorgeously shot, highlighting the heavenly mountains and a historical hell.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ebba Andersson tumbled and snapped the ski binding in the second leg, giving Norway the advantage on a day where warm weather caused slushy corners that created havoc in the early stages.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Three minutes of comedy chasing and evasive action ensued before play resumed, only for the four-legged fiend to return to wreak more havoc than the home attack had previously shown.—
Craig Chisnall,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ovens see a lot of messes from foods that spill onto the bottom or racks that can become burnt overtime the longer the messes sit and bake.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
19 Feb. 2026
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Robert’s large property borders a clear cut — a clearing where a pine thicket had been cut down in the summer of 2009 — leaving behind a mess of tree stumps and roots.—
Meghan O'Brien,
NBC news,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The result also spotlights conference championships’ awkward fit in the current system, particularly given the fact that conference expansion has led to jumbles atop each league’s standings.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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Despite the chaos of very many demands, the bar staff remains attentive and quick on their feet.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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But just as there’s a difference between depicting chaos and depicting chaotically, there’s a difference between presenting theatergoers with a realistic image of mental illness and driving an audience nuts.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Thirty-one years after founding the Vans Warped Tour, the pop-punk patriarch is looking at the modern music industry with a mixture of confusion and frustration.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Feb. 2026
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The result is not merely confusion about who is responsible but a gradual weakening of the expectations that make responsibility meaningful at all.—
Deb Roy,
The Atlantic,
15 Feb. 2026
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Jazbi suffers from a severe blood disorder that requires medication, according to the committee.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Benjamin has an intellectual disability caused by a rare genetic disorder called Coffin-Sirus Syndrome, which can come with medical complications such as autism.—
Alyssa Ramos,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Snake pit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snake%20pit. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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