limbo
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It has been in limbo ahead of Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The family’s future is in limbo as Jeanie Buss contests her five siblings’ plans to sell their remaining stake of the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Meanwhile, they - and other clubs - remain in limbo.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Multiple people need access to that data, so we’re all in limbo until I fly back,” he said.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
By Loeb’s reckoning, Livingston was a personality type destined to occupy an uneasy limbo within this continuum.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The four teams have a cumulative winning percentage of .284, which easily limbos under the all-time low-mark of .344 set by the NFC West in 2008.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2020
Beyond censorship issues, very few prints tend to be struck in the first place and independent low-budget productions are often plagued by copyright limbos and distribution problems.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2018
Rendered in English, Spanish, sign language and gobbledygook, the dialogue and lyrics of “Runaways” are the universal vernacular of people trapped in that most painful of limbos, the period between childhood and adulthood.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2016
In several images, key figures are “spot-lit” while their companions occupy gray limbos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2016
She was still in the limbos of primitivism.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
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