quagmire

Example Sentences

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For all his backroom skill, Tojo did not include the U.S., or a quagmire in China, in his calculations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

With a paucity of working capital and bank lending rates now exceeding 60%, both foreign and domestic firms are stuck in a quagmire.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The quagmire of falsified and lost records for Syria's missing children means surviving mothers and fathers are left to hunt from one institution to the next for any information at all.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

But this doesn't have to become an endless quagmire.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2025

On the race’s eve, a downpour rendered the track at Narragansett a quagmire.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand