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2012 May 30, Hayley Spurway, “Top 10 family days out in south Devon”, in the Guardian:
There's plenty for toddlers too: experience the Wild West in Bear City, play with sand diggers, splash in the paddling pool and discover meerkats, reptiles and alpacas in the Zoo-Farm. Rain doesn't stop play, just head for the indoor fun factory with a rocking and rolling tugboat, mirror maze, ferris wheel and soft play.
Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
2009 May 11, “Nation's largest desal project faces financing hurdles”, in New York Times:
The project developer, Poseidon Resources Corp., has been winding its way through a maze of state and local agencies for six years
1580, John Lyly, “Euphues and His England”, in The Complete Works of John Lyly, published 1906, page 36:
But first they came to Canterbury, an olde Citie, somewhat decayed, yet beautiful to behold, most famous for a Cathedrall Church, the very Maiestie whereoff, stroke them into a maze, where they saw many monuments, and heard tell of greater, then either they euer saw, or easely would beleeue.
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maze (third-person singular simple presentmazes, present participlemazing, simple past and past participlemazed)
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer,, published 1727, →OCLC:
