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mire

noun as in muck, morass

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The referendum was mired by extensive evidence of Russian meddling – including cash being smuggled into the country to buy votes.

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However, it was also mired by protests as thousands gathered in Parliament Square.

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Perkins is the latest public figure to be mired in controversy over comments related to Kirk.

On this, his third album, he picks at the scabs of northern working-class life, and rails against a system that leaves families mired in bureaucratic neglect.

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The president claims the CHP is "mired in corruption" with a network like "an octopus whose arms stretch to other parts of Turkey and abroad".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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