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It means Forest will know they need to capitalise soon or risk being dragged back into the mire of a relegation battle where reputations count for little and big names are feeling the heat.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Earlier on Sunday, a late Alexis Claude Maurice penalty took Augsburg to a 1-0 home win over rock-bottom Heidenheim, lifting the hosts six points clear of the relegation mire.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

But after reading “The Dream Factory,” you might like him better when he still had his feet in the Shoreditch mire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Some were tasked with pulling electrical cords out of the mire while others attempted to tidy up the bedlam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

Looking to salvage one shining thing from the mire.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

But there's no small amount of controversy when it comes to marshes, mires, fens, bogs, vernal pools, prairie ponds, pocosins, sloughs, small streams, seasonal streams, and rain-dependent streams.

From Salon ● May 2, 2023

As society mires its way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, health coverage has come into sharp focus for all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

Rather than high-tail it to Seattle, where a new life appears to await, Jo remains in New England and mires herself in a different family’s tumult.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2022

In addition, FEO is using satellites to monitor water levels over time in EU-protected boreal wetlands called appa mires.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2021

The orcs hindered by the mires that lay before the hills halted and poured their arrows into the defending ranks.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Back then, stocks were mired in a painful bear market as the Federal Reserve kicked off an aggressive series of interest-rate hikes that many feared would drive the U.S. economy into a recession.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Amount of construction financing banks provided for Oracle’s “Project Jupiter,” a massive New Mexico data center that is now mired in delays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

A UK probe into a suspected bomb plot at an airbase used by the United States was mired in confusion on Tuesday, after media reported no explosives were detected in vehicles seized nearby.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Social media has many users trapped in nostalgia loops, desperately clinging to a simpler era that wasn’t so uniquely mired in digital discontent.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

There had been some Rain & the Earth of the Road was soft & his Desk was somewhat mired as he leaned upon it.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“We want to be sure that this center enhances those efforts rather than duplicating them or miring them in unnecessary bureaucracy,” the Virginia Democrat said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

Although the law’s opponents claimed it would cover trivial matters and end up miring federal courts in divorce, the number of claims were modest in scope and the abuse serious.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2021

Plaintiffs’ lawyers want to avoid miring their clients’ cases in lengthy courtroom wrangling over requests that filings be sealed or redacted.

From Reuters ● Jun. 25, 2019

The resin puddled and pooled, miring countless creatures "like a mini–La Brea Tar Pits," says paleontologist Ryan McKellar at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, Canada.

From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2019

The discoveries once again fractured the consensus about the early American history, miring it in dispute.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann