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maze

[meyz] / meɪz /


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Big-time players will likely have an array of financial experts to help them navigate the tax maze, Fagan said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

In a sixth-floor conference room at the end of a maze of hallways in the New York Stock Exchange, Flutter CEO Peter Jackson laid out the firm’s World Cup strategy for Barron’s.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

“It’s like being stuck in a maze and no matter what path you choose there’s just black holes everywhere that you keep falling into,” he says before launching into a traumatic memory.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

His next task, to get to the treasure left by a gold miner in a more intricate and difficult maze, at first defeated him when he tried to solve it prematurely, without sufficient study.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

It also involves lots of mazes and puzzles that often pose the biggest challenges for an AI model.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

From mazes of cubicles to plentiful lush balconies, office designers keep re-envisioning spaces to support our professional lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 5, 2026

While Coffin Creek, which at times went by the name Crossroads Haunted Village, was essentially a destination populated by several independently owned and operated haunted mazes, Shireman was the head of the operation.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2025

Which isn't really surprising, I suppose; this was also the age of ecclesiastical mazes - which may have served as metaphors for pilgrimages to Jerusalem - such as those at Chartres and Lucca Cathedrals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Men's hearts were mazed; such seven bull-hides each other in them lined, So stiff they were with lead sewn in and iron laid thereby; And chief of all was Dares mazed, and drew back utterly.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

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

It certainly did not look imposing—a mass of spidery tubes mazing round a bulky black box, which was, Lance guessed, some new type of generator.

From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Bates, Harry

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 Cullum, Ridgwell

Oh! what tones, What mazing sight is this!

From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield




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