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maze

[mayz] / meɪz /


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"You are trying to establish answers yourself - but it takes you down a maze of rabbit holes," he told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Participants improved on one measure of a computerized maze task, but the researchers found no significant benefit on the other cognitive tests or mood measures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The refinery -- built in the 1960s in then communist-ruled East Germany -- is a maze of metal pipes, huge tanks and stone chimneys the size of more than 1,200 football fields.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

And I wasn’t entirely thrilled with “Backrooms” getting lost in the maze of its metaphors, either.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

When we entered the market district, I stood and stared at the giant maze, crowded with stalls of every kind of thing people have made, unsorted and loud.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

They navigated mazes and remembered previously encountered objects almost as effectively as younger mice, while outperforming similarly aged mice whose EP2 receptors continued functioning normally.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

The building, filled to its ceilings, grew increasingly dilapidated; Langley’s paranoia about suspected intruders led him to build mazes of detritus to throw them off.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

For decades, the neighborhood had an eclectic mix of residents, including a radio announcer who built mazes for children using wooden pallets and a man who started a public market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Cerebras inscribed the memory directly on to the wafer rather than relegating it to distant chips and chiplets in high-bandwidth memory mazes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025

I pretend I’m a scientist, on the outside looking in, the way Ms. Keen describes her days watching rats get lost in mazes.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

I want to assume I’m headed toward civilization, but America’s public lands are mazed with old roads that peter out far from anything.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020

Across the patio, the mazed eyes, mind-sickness, and poignant affection between Galván and what he calls “my family”, echo down 10 years on different faces.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019

Passing coffeehouses and boutiques, I arrived at a room mazed by long tables, with cardstock and Sharpie pens as place settings.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2018

I knew it had to do with being poor, with learning English and studying the mazed map of London.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2015

Many persons, besides Mrs. Yellam, were mazed and dazed during these Spring days.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell

It’s mazing how quickly perspective can shift in this league.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2011

I am the rock, The spiked foundations of the plan ye rear Among the mazing stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

They struck their tents everywhere; burnt their own Magazines, in some cases; and only went mazing hither and thither,—gravitating all upon Nurnberg, and an impregnable Camp which they have in that neighborhood.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle

Fully five miles it soared toward space, its fantastic angles and arcs and cubes and pyramids mazing in the dimensions of a totally alien geometry.

From Raiders of the Universes by Donald A. Wandrei

The mountain barrier ahead, looming darkly forbidding in the starlight, with its mazing hollows and woodland crowns, was incapable of inspiration at the moment.

From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum




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