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
We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
A man has been rescued from quicksand in Morecambe Bay, in what emergency teams described as a "close call" as the tide was "rapidly pushing in".
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025
I had this idea 15 years ago, and the idea that everything was changing and it was quicksand under our feet was a little less prevalent back then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Apparently, to survive quicksand, you should stay perfectly still.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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
Who, seriously, would be taken aback now if Villa, confidence shot to pieces, could not clamber out of the Premier League's quicksands?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
That which, under wholesome restraint, is the initiative and incentive of inquiry, of enterprise, and of noble ideas; unrestricted, leads the dreamer and the enthusiast into ingulfing quicksands of illusions and delusions.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
