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maze

[mayz] / meɪz /


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"It is still essential borrowers do not delay seeking advice to navigate the mortgage maze."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

They kept moving forward, deeper and deeper into the maze of server cabinets towering above them.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

The way Josie spoke each word, mazes had to be worse.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Even this is a guise of one of the original motives in the mazing medley, where it seems we could trace the ancestry of each if we could linger and if it really mattered.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

The rays that come to me are but faint cross lights, mazing the obscurity wherein I live.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

Oh! what tones, What mazing sight is this!

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




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