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maze

[meyz] / meɪz /


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After reaching the Iranian wallets, the money flowed through a complex maze of transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 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

Working with screenwriter Will Soodik, Parsons has gone back into that banal maze to find an uncannily mature story about loss and stagnation, about how our self-serving narratives barricade us from emotional growth.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

These maze domains can change abruptly as temperatures rise or fall, influencing how energy is lost in the material.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

Funny, easygoing Allun the baker was going to vanish with the others into the secret maze of cliffs and forests that rose above them.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

For decades, the neighborhood had an eclectic mix of residents, including a radio announcer who built mazes for children using wooden pallets and a man who started a public market.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 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

“Gary’s mazes were very old-school and very low-tech, and he was a big proponent of that,” said Warren So, a contributor for Hollywood Gothique, an online guide to all things horror in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2025

Thus, he says the key differentiator between Horror Unleashed and Halloween Horror Nights is not necessarily the tech used in the mazes, but the extended time they can devote to unwrapping a story.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2025

The king’s men succeeded only in getting lost in the dungeon’s tortuous mazes.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

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

He found himself, half stunned, wholly mazed, wallowing in the débris of his first church row, the renewed war over the Ditson pew.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.

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 Goepp, Philip H.

Oh! what tones, What mazing sight is this!

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

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




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