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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

The filmmakers don’t guide you into this world so much as they grab you by the hand and yank you into its maze while you’re still deciding whether or not you want to enter.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

To measure learning and memory, the scientists used a common laboratory experiment called the Morris water maze.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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

It was a tangled maze of mysteries, and Penelope could not seem to find her way out.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

She cites the difficulty of finding consistent medical care for J., the “threat of debt” that hung over their lives and the “impenetrable mazes of paperwork” in which she wandered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

In Pokémon Blue, which became popular on Nintendo Game Boy devices in the late 90s, players must navigate through a series of mazes, catch Pokémon and battle so-called “gym masters” to earn badges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The guests began to arrive, many with tales of how they'd gotten lost on the way; the suburbs were dark and intricate like mazes with their courts and cul-de-sacs.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

"They come wi' news of the groanin' earth, They come wi' news o' the roarin' sea, Wi' word of Spirit and Ghost and Flesh, And man that's mazed among the three."

From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

In the meane time take order for the fight, 2260 Drums let your fearefull mazing thunder playe.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous

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




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