Synonyms for minefield
ˈmaɪnˌfildmine·field

Princeton's WordNet

1. minefieldnoun

   a region in which explosives mines have been placed

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1. Lissa Muscatine:

   We were fairly confident that the speech was good, even though we had to walk a diplomatic minefield, but for an eternity, there was absolutely no response from the audience, they looked like statues and we got really panicked, and we thought 'My God, what if we misread this?'.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

3. Tom Hanks:

   But Bob Zemeckis says,' I don't know, it's a minefield, Colonel Tom Parker, it's a minefield. Tom Hanks never know what people are gon na take away from it.' And it ends up being, Tom Hanks know, that thing.

4. Tom Hanks:

   It was written on cue cards... I didn't need the cue cards after a while because you get into it, but Bob Zemeckis says,' I don't know, it's a minefield, Colonel Tom Parker, it's a minefield. Tom Hanks never know what people are gon na take away from it.' And it ends up being, Tom Hanks know, that thing.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   Reports of a reliable whistleblower complaint regarding the president's communications with a foreign leader raise grave, urgent concerns for our national security, if the president has done what has been alleged, then he is stepping into a dangerous minefield with serious repercussions for his administration and our democracy.