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Recent Examples of quicksand
In our view, the only way to escape this play-in quicksand is to pick one of the three aforementioned paths.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
And maybe that's how to escape the loyalty quicksand.
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Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2026
And yet those tracks are laid on quicksand.
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David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
The National Park Service issued a warning about the presence of hazardous quicksand areas near the shoreline and at drainages in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which spans across both Arizona and Utah.
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Jessica Mekles,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
And maybe that's how to escape the loyalty quicksand.
—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2026
And yet those tracks are laid on quicksand.
—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
The National Park Service issued a warning about the presence of hazardous quicksand areas near the shoreline and at drainages in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which spans across both Arizona and Utah.
—
Jessica Mekles,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksand
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This is because the infrastructure of the city traps in all of the heat that built up during the day, thus preventing a normal nocturnal cooldown seen in non-urban settings.
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One of the biggest traps organizations fall into is assuming employees already know what behaviors are valued.
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They’re immediately pulled into a tangle of police reports, hospital notifications, insurance calls, and legal questions that can feel impossible to sort through while grieving.
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Richie Laryea for Canada burst into the box in a good position but was brought to ground amid a tangle of legs with South Africa’s Khuliso Mudau.
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Such interpretations help sustain a story that still feels like a reinterpretation of the original series, providing outlets for original thought in a quagmire of iteration.
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SpaceX is, however, facing competition from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which is building a lander hat hews much closer to the simpler, Apollo-era lunar landers than the gargantuan, engineering quagmire that is Starship.
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Old school computer gamers will be intimately familiar with the dungeon crawler genre, popularized by games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder, which involves moving in first-person on a grid, taking on monsters, finding treasure and delving deeper into a labyrinth.
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Under the streets of Paris, a 75-mile labyrinth of pipes is at work trying to keep the parts of the city cool.
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The massive language model is a morass of words connecting to other words.
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These elements and more could help move the needle on the nation’s housing morass.
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Travelers can use apps like The Dyrt to find free and low-cost camping areas, while OnX Backcountry helps navigate maze-like forest roads.
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The thunderous cry rings out over a crowd gathered in front of a television propped up on plastic tables and past a maze of vendors lining a bustling working-class neighborhood in downtown Mexico City.
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Dark web markets are shrouded in secrecy, but admins of dark web marketplaces have been identified by law enforcement and arrested before.
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Note that the Username button will only appear on your primary mobile device, and not on the WhatsApp web or desktop app.
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Her departure comes on the heels the scandal surrounding her romantic entanglement with fellow cast member West Wilson.
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But in this case, the result has been physical missing pieces, a legal entanglement spanning multiple courts and parties, and a city galvanized to keep the history of slavery alive.
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“Quicksand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksand. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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