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as in tangle
something that catches and holds
advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible
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as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass
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Recent Examples of morass
While the city is at a crossroads, the job of mayor is shrinking, and with it the likelihood that bold and competent future leadership can lift Chicago from a historic morass.
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Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
Florence illustrates the potential of the agentic AI approach when confronting the bureaucratic morass.
—Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two kilometers across clogged the path of the River Lonza, causing a huge lake to form amid the wreckage and raising fears that the morass could dislodge.
—Dave Graham, Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2025
But if such a deus ex machina does not appear, there’s every reason to fear that Israel will plunge deeper into the morass.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
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Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
Florence illustrates the potential of the agentic AI approach when confronting the bureaucratic morass.
—Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two kilometers across clogged the path of the River Lonza, causing a huge lake to form amid the wreckage and raising fears that the morass could dislodge.
—Dave Graham, Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2025
But if such a deus ex machina does not appear, there’s every reason to fear that Israel will plunge deeper into the morass.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morass
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Taking inspiration from the CAR T-cell technology used to provide personalized cancer treatments, researchers have conducted a proof-of-concept study showing how similar compounds can precisely target protein tangles and plaques in the brain.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
12 June 2025
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To get started, take care of the tangles throughout your hair strands.—
Catharine Malzahn,
Glamour,
11 June 2025
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Fifteen minutes outside of downtown Boulder, Colorado, sandwiched between a golf course and a marsh, is Congregation Bonai Shalom.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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Before its use as a dump, the land beneath the depot was a marsh along the now-subterranean Givan Creek, which empties into nearby Eastchester Bay.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2025
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What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological background, suddenly becomes an inescapable trap.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 June 2025
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During their surveys, researchers set up mist nets of various sizes and waited to see what flew into the traps, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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But the effect of duration swamps the measurement: that’s why the bTRIMP graph above shows the 60-minute easy run (LIT) as the workout with the biggest training load.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
5 June 2025
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The Atchafalaya River Basin is the country’s largest river swamp.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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Hamas provoked the Israelis into a quagmire in Gaza by brutally raping and murdering young concertgoers and kidnapping families from their kibbutzes.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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This contradicts the precedent set by prior direct payments, such as the Covid-19 stimulus checks, which were heavily weighted toward lower-income Americans and could create a political quagmire for Trump.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Start the morning kayaking in the Morro Bay Estuary, an 800-acre wetland with salt marshes and mudflats.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The turtles' parents are native to the Iowa wetlands.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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The city’s extensive labyrinth of catacombs was nearby as well, underground ossuaries crammed full of the skeletal remains of millions of Parisians.—
Anelise Chen
June 3,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2025
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Infant formula is also highly regulated, presenting any new entrant with a labyrinth of hoops to jump through.—
Alisha Haridasani Gupta,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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However, these systems become organizational quicksand in volatile environments where exceptions become the rule.—
Nate Bennett,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Morass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morass. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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