pitfall
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Synonyms
booby trap, catch, catch-22, gimmick, gotcha, hitch, joker, land mine, snag
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The increase in passive fund duration is largely owed to a structural pitfall that’s baked into bond indexes. — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, "Unlike Stock Pickers, Active Bond Managers Are Beating the Market," 1 Nov. 2018 Rather than being a pitfall to painting, the imaginative leaps that homeless representation triggers give Bradford’s art its kick and resonance. — David Pagel, latimes.com, "'Mark Bradford: New Works' at Hauser & Wirth," 24 Mar. 2018 Second, China has cannily avoided such pitfalls by being far more judicious in its tariff strategy. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, "Trump Thinks He Is Winning the Trade War. The Data Tell a Different Story," 16 Aug. 2019 The good news is that there are ways to avoid these potentially catastrophic pitfalls. — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, "Several Texas wildfires sparked by misused equipment, according to Texas A&M Forest Service," 13 Aug. 2019 But Trump mostly avoided the pitfalls that ethics experts had warned about, by not trashing his 2020 election political opponents or talking about his reelection bid. — Heather Timmons, Quartz, "US taxpayers funded this epic Trump 2020 campaign ad," 5 July 2019 Lately there’s a strange caution in the air about the intellectual pitfalls of comparing American politics to the performing arts — or worse, to showbiz. — Washington Post, "Can we get past the idea that politics is a reality show? Not if CNN has anything to do with it.," 2 Aug. 2019 Waxman perfectly calibrates Nina’s quirkiness and anxieties, managing to sidestep any of the pitfalls of the manic pixie dream girl trope that can plague fictional women of this ilk. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, "Hot Stuff: July romances offer 'knotty' self-discovery," 30 July 2019 However, Paytm is well aware of the pitfalls of overly relying on discounting, especially with educational services. — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, "Behind Paytm’s grand plan to become a one-stop shop for educational services in India," 15 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pitfall.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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