limbo

“Multiple people need access to that data, so we’re all in limbo until I fly back,” he said.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Barring a miracle, those unaccounted for have also died, leaving the families still searching for their loved ones underneath the rubble in a desperate limbo.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

The Sparks, meanwhile, are stuck in their rebuild limbo, with several veterans on long-term contracts and just Rae Burrell on an expiring contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

When AT&T agreed to buy what was then Time Warner in 2016, the companies spent roughly 20 months in merger limbo while the Justice Department challenged the deal in court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Between the other vendors—totally beaten and ailing itinerants whose names are something like Buddy, Pal, Sport, Top, Buck, and Ace—and my customers, I am apparently trapped in a limbo of lost souls.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

In several images, key figures are “spot-lit” while their companions occupy gray limbos.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2016

The adventure set up in Telltale's original Game of Thrones continues in the difficult, if slow-moving, Lost Lords, where players must survive drunk limbos with Tyrion and lend an ear to Asher Forrester.

From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2015

The wooing of Merope by Polyphontes is not so much preposterous as insignificant, though Voltaire, by a touch of modernism, has rescued it or half-rescued it from this most terrible of limbos.

From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury