quagmire
Example Sentences
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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
Meanwhile, the war in Iraq came to seem closer to a quagmire than he had predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
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
Anyway, probably no one is thinking about an appropriately weighty yet catchy phrase to call our quagmire right now.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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