"Sargasso" meaning in English

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          "text": "2000, Ruth Heller, A Sea Within a Sea: Secrets of the Sargasso, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "2010, James Prosek, Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish, →ISBN:",
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        "Short for Sargasso Sea."
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      "form": "Sargassos",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1977, Ben Belitt, “From the Firehouse: (Homage to Paul Feeley)”, in The Double Witness: Poems: 1970–1976, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; reprinted as The Double Witness (Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016, page 22",
          "text": "I cannot bear the striking of your colors, that Sargasso of / passionate forms.",
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          "ref": "2005, Aaron Barlow, “Reel Toads and Imaginary Cities: Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner and the Contemporary Science Fiction Movie”, in Will Brooker, editor, The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic, New York, N.Y.: Wallflower Press, published by Columbia University Press, section 1 (The Cinema of Philip K. Dick), page 58",
          "text": "His [Philip K. Dick's] ideas provide diegetic anchors for digitally oriented directors [...] whose works might otherwise float off into a Sargasso of insignificance.",
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          "ref": "2005, William Logan, “Verse Chronicle: Satanic Mills”, in The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, page 329",
          "text": "His [William Shakespeare's] poems, like [John] Donne's and [John] Keats's and [Emily] Dickinson's, have not drowned in the Sargasso of discarded poetic diction.",
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          "ref": "2007, Michael Jackson, “On Birth, Death, and Rebirth”, in Excursions, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, page 192",
          "text": "All night on the plane, I had slept fitfully, my mind clogged with a Sargasso of floating memories and disconnected images—from when I lived in New Zealand or first went to Sierra Leone.",
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          "ref": "2008 February, Dallas Tanner, chapter 32, in Wake of the Lake Monster (The Cryptids Trilogy; book 3), [s.l.]: Trilogus Books, pages 306–307",
          "text": "They were all shocked when the crews saw the lights and glinting steel of a ghost ship. It was as if he entered a Sargasso of lost and forgotten vessels, shadows out of his shattered past.",
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        "Also sargasso: a confused, tangled mass or situation."
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          "tangled",
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        "(figuratively) Also sargasso: a confused, tangled mass or situation."
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          "ref": "1977, Ben Belitt, “From the Firehouse: (Homage to Paul Feeley)”, in The Double Witness: Poems: 1970–1976, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; reprinted as The Double Witness (Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016, page 22",
          "text": "I cannot bear the striking of your colors, that Sargasso of / passionate forms.",
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          "text": "His [Philip K. Dick's] ideas provide diegetic anchors for digitally oriented directors [...] whose works might otherwise float off into a Sargasso of insignificance.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, William Logan, “Verse Chronicle: Satanic Mills”, in The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, page 329",
          "text": "His [William Shakespeare's] poems, like [John] Donne's and [John] Keats's and [Emily] Dickinson's, have not drowned in the Sargasso of discarded poetic diction.",
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          "text": "All night on the plane, I had slept fitfully, my mind clogged with a Sargasso of floating memories and disconnected images—from when I lived in New Zealand or first went to Sierra Leone.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 February, Dallas Tanner, chapter 32, in Wake of the Lake Monster (The Cryptids Trilogy; book 3), [s.l.]: Trilogus Books, pages 306–307",
          "text": "They were all shocked when the crews saw the lights and glinting steel of a ghost ship. It was as if he entered a Sargasso of lost and forgotten vessels, shadows out of his shattered past.",
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