quicksand
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"It's like quicksand," he shouted in surprise to his family watching from a distance.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
For those of us sinking in email quicksand, a curated list instead of a wall of new messages is compelling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
I had this idea 15 years ago, and the idea that everything was changing and it was quicksand under our feet was a little less prevalent back then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
The first picture taken by the Viking 1 lander was of one of its own footpads—in case it were to sink into Martian quicksand, we wanted to know about it before the spacecraft disappeared.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
Who, seriously, would be taken aback now if Villa, confidence shot to pieces, could not clamber out of the Premier League's quicksands?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
Next up for the Dukes is a play about the perilous quicksands of Morecambe bay.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2010
Warned by my experience at the Tista, I kept a sharp look-out for quicksands.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
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