quicksand
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"It's like quicksand," he shouted in surprise to his family watching from a distance.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Everything changes," he said, adding "It seems like quicksand."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
That early access gave Xi a front-row seat to the raw mechanics of military power—and taught him that the commander who doesn’t fully control the generals is a leader standing on quicksand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
“Like, hello? I was being swallowed by quicksand, okay?”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
The words of that movement — “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood” — still echo.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022
A family spokesman said: "He pioneered fundraising cross-bay walks and was responsible for leading 6,000 charity walkers a year, avoiding the treacherous quicksands and dangerous areas."
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021
For long passages they were overwhelmed by a side who had spent 237 days in the relegation quicksands.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2016
Next up for the Dukes is a play about the perilous quicksands of Morecambe bay.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2010
I refer to that by which horses bred in provinces where quicksands are common avoid their dangers or extricate themselves from them.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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