quicksand
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The rescuers rode off in the literal dust and, as one might imagine, the effect of the reunions is emotional quicksand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"It's like quicksand," he shouted in surprise to his family watching from a distance.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
"Everything changes," he said, adding "It seems like quicksand."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
But it’s like they’re in shallow quicksand and don’t realize that it’s not too deep to survive.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
The words of that movement — “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood” — still echo.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022
A family spokesman said: "He pioneered fundraising cross-bay walks and was responsible for leading 6,000 charity walkers a year, avoiding the treacherous quicksands and dangerous areas."
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021
For long passages they were overwhelmed by a side who had spent 237 days in the relegation quicksands.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2016
Next up for the Dukes is a play about the perilous quicksands of Morecambe bay.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2010
Before evening we became acquainted with the quicksands of the Missouri.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
