Thesaurus results for QUICKSANDS

quicksands

noun

plural of quicksand

as in traps

something that catches and holds mired in the quicksand of credit card debt

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Noun

Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to Wienerschnitzel in Natomas after finding 33 German cockroaches in various areas of the facility including on the floor beneath the ice machine and on three glue traps.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Given mink’s reputation as escape artists, wildlife experts set up traps around infected farms.

— Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of traps

Noun

The shampoo didn’t strip the tester’s already-dry hair, and a two-minute conditioner left her tangles smooth enough to finger-comb.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
The brain’s surface has ridges and valleys, and CTE tangles are found in the depths of those valleys, called the cortical sulci, and surround blood vessels.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tangles

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At heart, structures and incentives pull Washington back, repeatedly, to avoidable quagmires.

— Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of quagmires

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After all, Apple and Google are sworn frenemies, dragging each other in the press while simultaneously holding multi-billion-dollar entanglements behind the scenes.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Trump successfully tapped into these grievances by promising to scale back international entanglements and bring back factories and manufacturing jobs.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of entanglements

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And who knows if, with chef Mario Carbone, part of those labyrinths will be repurposed into wineries for fine wines.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
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

Definition of labyrinths

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The gods themselves are also an unnerving presence, omnipresent beings of colossal power who see humans as their playthings and view Ulysses' toils as some twisted spectator sport.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
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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