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Recent Examples of quicksand
Instead, Day and OSU stepped out of the quicksand and dominated No. 9 Tennessee, No. 1 Oregon and No. 5 Texas by an average margin of 19.7 points.
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Lauren Merola, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Escaping career quicksand requires an ongoing commitment to learn, unlearn, relearn, and repeat.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The legal system is broken, and businesses can't take a chance on getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
The legal system is broken, and businesses can’t take a chance in getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tara Suter, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
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Lauren Merola, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Escaping career quicksand requires an ongoing commitment to learn, unlearn, relearn, and repeat.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The legal system is broken, and businesses can't take a chance on getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
The legal system is broken, and businesses can’t take a chance in getting caught up in this quicksand.
—Tara Suter, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
Noun
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Later, the ladies end up falling into the trap of talking about politics at dinner (been there!).—
Dan Heching,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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That dream became a reality four months later when, on February 11, scientists found young salmon in a trap several miles downstream from the egg deposit sites.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Focus on your waist, not just your weight As the size of a person’s belly grows, studies show the memory center of the brain shrinks and hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s disease can appear — namely beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
25 Feb. 2025
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Yet as the novel moves along, and the target chosen for Hyacinth by his anarchist superiors—an unnamed duke—hovers into view, the tangle of motives becomes subtler.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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There is no single champion for the region, and there is no consensus on how to bring the area out of its quagmire.—
Maha Yahya,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk Just Started Shutting Down This Government Agency Hours Before Employees Were Expected to Report to Work The quagmire created by shuttering USAID will have profound, lasting global effects.—
Dawn Klavon,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Mark is determined to solve the Gemma/Miss Casey question and rescue either or both of them (preferably both) from the labyrinth of Lumen's corridors and conference rooms.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Is this a burgeoning love affair or just another con job stacked on top of a labyrinth of deceptions?—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Shapiro, who launched crisis PR firm 10th Avenue Consulting in 2015 after his lengthy tenure in the federal government, would seem an unconventional choice for Lively given that the spiraling legal morass has no obvious political ties.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, starting a process early in President Trump's second term could prove helpful given the resulting legal morass, depending on the mechanism that the EPA employs to repeal it.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The challenge is cutting through the maze of myths and taking an intelligent approach to recovery.—
Vijay Menon,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Tracking Liam down at a maze of a house, Nolan fell through a weak floor, as Miles watched.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
25 Feb. 2025
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The survey polled 1,033 adults via web, phone and field interviews from Feb. 4 -12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
3 Mar. 2025
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Productivity and Content Creation Tests Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, tests a system in productivity apps such as web browsing, word processing, and spreadsheet work.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
2 Mar. 2025
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Although these deals may be legal, the extent of family entanglements at Super Micro could create conflicts of interest, and signal weak corporate governance.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Then on March 14, a total lunar eclipse in Virgo will shake up your eighth house of mergers, joint ventures and shared resources, urging you to release emotional baggage or financial entanglements that no longer serve you.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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