purgatory
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They feel like suburban purgatory, liminal implying a state in between reality and dream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
For now, counties like Hood remain stuck in purgatory, watching rapid development overwhelm their communities while waiting for state policy to catch up.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Helima Croft: We are in a cease-fire-with-no-oil purgatory.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Denmark needed one goal to guarantee automatic qualification and send Scotland to the purgatory of the play-offs - and they were pummelling Belarus in pursuit of it.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
“You know what this is? It’s purgatory soup.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
He could ask Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans for forgiveness over not righting their untenable political purgatories.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Like a rich novel, “About Dry Grasses” takes its time fleshing out its central players, who are each grappling with their own metaphorical purgatories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Treasury officials, who are trying to brace the public for refund delays, service disruptions, interminable telephone-hold purgatories and other unpleasantries that taxpayers will face over the next few months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
It was a modest success, yet Ms. Wyatt spent the next several years mired in various record-label purgatories, a moist, bright voice lost to time.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2011
The unctuous plausibility of the pretense that prisons are beneficent purgatories and not hells renders it the more sickening.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian
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