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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

Lesser biographies pick sides; Mangold trusts us to find our own path through the mire, while noting the particular risk of being a wunderkind hoisted up into a deity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

The rain fell upon us; and we waited in the mire for time to pass so we might make our dash across the flats.

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

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 hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled water-courses.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

LAFC, mired in a slump having won just two of its last 13 games in all competition, fired first-year coach Marc Dos Santos on Sunday with six matches left in the MLS regular season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 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

The disaster sparked a wave of grief in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region mired in conflict for more than three decades with myriad armed groups fighting over its territory.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Last year the contest was mired in scandal after it was noticed that some contestants' stones were suspiciously circular.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

One thing leads to another, then you’re mired in.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Marrone went 24-43 in four seasons in Jacksonville, falling a few plays shy of the franchise’s first Super Bowl in 2017 and then miring near the bottom of the league since.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 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

Connell and Marianne are not free, and Normal People becomes a tender, bruised meditation on how two people can keep miring themselves in misery even when happiness is within their reach.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2019

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann