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maze

[meyz] / meɪz /


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And I wasn’t entirely thrilled with “Backrooms” getting lost in the maze of its metaphors, either.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Left to drift, it ossifies into a maze navigable only by the already-established.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

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

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

On Sunday afternoon, the Brisbanes invited their neighbors over to watch me run my maze.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

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

A character named Gracie, for example, guides kids interactively through mazes and maps displayed either on the tablet or in the classroom.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

I’ve been running rats through mazes ever since.”

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

Then forgive me," said Gabriel, mazed by this persistent masquerading, "for 'twas I who innocently made thee suffer.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

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

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

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 Ridgwell Cullum

Oh! what tones, What mazing sight is this!

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




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