bog
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Overnight, they found themselves facing the prospect of blanket moratoriums, tighter environmental regulations and longer review timelines, along with potential new AI-safety regulations that could further bog them down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
As so often happens in Scotland, the alleged trail immediately vanished into a vast stretch of bog with no obvious way forward.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
The forest is home to one of the largest continuous areas of blanket bog in the Lake District and acts as a huge carbon store.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
“There are big companies that have a lot of money, deep pockets — they could suffocate you, they can bog you down in litigation to the point where you can’t financially match them,” Colter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Milagro metamorphosed into one great gloppy bog, overrun with muskrats and water snakes.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Her repeated descriptions of bogs and their ability to “tell a story” are laborious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Then in 1857, the regime of Emperor Napoleon III ordered the planting of maritime pines to drain the bogs of southwestern France.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The charity says it's working to raise water tables where bogs have been drained and create new areas of standing water for fire fighting.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
On-site operations have been complicated by the fens' terrain -- a patchwork of heath, peat bogs and raised wooden boardwalks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
He tried to recall all he had been taught of the crannogmen, who dwelt amongst the bogs of the Neck and seldom left their wetlands.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Regarding his strategy for dealing with stress, Wilcox said: "My wife will know when I am bogged down with frustration. When I re-energise, I do it on my own. Me and the dog, walking."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Don’t Have a Clue bag is a way to keep yourself from getting bogged down, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
With only the swirling sounds of an overhead air conditioning vent to cloud her thoughts, she explained that, at the beginning, “Estrus” was bogged down by an unprecedented wave of writer’s block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
It was time-consuming, inefficient, prone to delays and misunderstandings and bogged down by missed return phone calls, especially before cellphones became universally used.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
We get bogged down in traffic for several miles, and even though Radar is desperate to violate the speed limit, he’s lucky when he can go thirty.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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EU membership also risks bogging down Icelandic businesses in bureaucracy, she and other business leaders said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Late-arriving tax forms from partnerships and brokerage firms are also bogging down returns, O’Saben noted.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Seventeen of his home runs came before the All-Star break, a sign of injuries bogging down his results at the plate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
"For that potential purchase to best compliment Netflix, the planned split of WBD would make its studio more attractive without bogging it down with TV networks that aren't as agile as Netflix," Benes told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
The discovery of a fissile isotope that could be separated from its parent by chemical means might quell the skepticism still bogging down the uranium program.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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