as in traps
something that catches and holds
mired in the quicksand of credit card debt
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quicksands
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Officials with Connecticut’s mosquito management program are hard at work setting up traps and collecting mosquitoes for the presence of viruses that can cause illnesses in people, including West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 June 2026 -
During their hospitalization, Alameda County Vector Control laid rat traps in and around the RV and sealed the vehicle, only opening it to remove the dead rats.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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Those tests include amyloid and tau PET scans to help detect amyloid plaque and tau tangles in the brain, while allowing for earlier detection and monitoring disease progression, according to the American Brain Foundation.—
Wendy Coschignano-Ford,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
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Before 2014, bull kelp—a whip-like kelp with bulbous air bladders and trailing blades —stretched across Northern California’s coastline in dense tangles.—
Tatjana Baleta,
Time,
28 May 2026
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These familiar, turbulent morasses of swirling droplets continue to stymie scientists.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Jeane used the example not to say that any of the three were in danger of closing, but to point out one of the enrollment quagmires in the district that covers 70 square miles.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Despite a few diversions along the way, Minney keeps returning to craft as a solution to fashion’s many quagmires.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Gonzales has made no secret of her criticism of Hickenlooper’s current financial entanglements.—
The Denver Post Editorial Board,
Denver Post,
9 June 2026
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However, once Venus enters Leo, your intimate affairs and emotional entanglements get hotter, messier and impossible to ignore.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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Separated by labyrinths of creeks and smaller cays, each one represents a stepping stone away from civilization, Parrish told me.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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There has to be a chance that Jos Buttler’s toils in Sri Lanka and India represent his last ventures on the international stage, and therefore the end of an era.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2026
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Further down the street, a troupe of drummers held court with a mix of snares and bass.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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Studio engineers often added percussion accents like shakers or tambourines, or handclaps layered on the snares, using a combination of texture and mathematical precision to keep heads and hips moving.—
Dash Lewis,
Pitchfork,
7 June 2026
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“Quicksands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quicksands. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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