maze
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Participants improved on one measure of a computerized maze task, but the researchers found no significant benefit on the other cognitive tests or mood measures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
"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
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
The wall of the maze now was the natural rock of the cave.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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
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
Universal plans to swap out occasionally the mazes in Horror Unleashed, which will open a second location in Chicago in 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
It's a wonderland of palace buildings with golden turrets and glittering arches, fountains full of crimson and ivory fish, topiary mazes of clipped trees, shrubs, and bushes in every possible geometric shape.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
She walked in, feeling stiff, mazed, and as though the familiar room was strange to her.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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
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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 Harry Bates
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 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