as in dilemma
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion
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Recent Examples of rabbit hole
Season Two somehow goes down even deeper and more self-referential rabbit holes than last season’s episode about the Fielder Method.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025
Plus, talking whiskey with a knowledgeable person is a great way to learn more without getting lost in the endless internet rabbit hole of reviews and rankings.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
That decision was kept secret from the entire cast, who also went down rabbit holes similar to paths pursued by fans about which character would meet such a savage ending.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
Congratulations–you’ve gone down a Wiki rabbit hole (a real thing, with its own Wikipedia page).
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2025
Plus, talking whiskey with a knowledgeable person is a great way to learn more without getting lost in the endless internet rabbit hole of reviews and rankings.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
That decision was kept secret from the entire cast, who also went down rabbit holes similar to paths pursued by fans about which character would meet such a savage ending.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
Congratulations–you’ve gone down a Wiki rabbit hole (a real thing, with its own Wikipedia page).
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbit hole
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Many of Cuomo’s mayoral race opponents have condemned the spending, saying the PAC gives him an unfair advantage in the race and poses an ethical dilemma since many of its contributors have city government business interests.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
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Here are eight passages that capture the new pope’s thinking as a young scholar on leadership, authority and some of the church’s most pressing dilemmas.—
Ruth Graham,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The cops are making progress, the bikers are sharpening their shivs, the main duo’s relationship is being tested and Ray is dealing with his own family issues, while Manny is facing his own piercing predicament.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 May 2025
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Sheriff Martinez could easily resolve this predicament of her own making.—
Pedro Rios,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 May 2025
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With them, came pickles, tomato sauce and jammy eggs.—
Laurie Ochoa,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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The vibe is retro, the pickles are sharp, and there’s always something new on the specials board.—
Keyla Vasconcellos,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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For decades, conservationists successfully plugged that hole by arguing in court that the ESA’s prohibition of harm to individual species includes destroying a species’ habitat.—
Emma Marris,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2025
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Other cavity nesters such as woodpeckers will make holes in trees, and those can also be adopted by tree swallows, flickers, kestrels and chickadees.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Some frustrated residents say the bureaucratic bind is emblematic of long-standing discrimination.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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On Rikers, a thicket of laws and lore, regulations and culture bind and barnacle decision-making.—
Elizabeth Glazer,
New York Daily News,
18 May 2025
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In Louisiana, alligators live mostly along the state’s coastal marshes but also can be found in its canals, bayous, rivers and swamps.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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From swamp to salinity In Western Australia, sediment cores from the beds of Lake Aerodrome, Gastropod Lake and Prado Lake reveal how long-term drying can change the ecology of a region.—
Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe,
The Conversation,
20 May 2025
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Printed by the thousands to hand out on street corners, the advertisements were meant to be ephemeral, tossed out when the party was over, but more than 1,000 of them have been preserved by the Cornell Hip Hop Archive, with nearly 500 shared via JSTOR by the Cornell University Library.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
23 May 2025
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Even at a modest warm-up pace, Feeling the chassis turn-in to corners, modulating the brakes, and letting the mighty S52 pull me out of corner-exit with assured low-end torque was quite smile-inducing.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Rabbit hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit%20hole. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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