quagmire
Example Sentences
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USC has found itself in a financial quagmire at an unsettled moment.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, the war in Iraq came to seem closer to a quagmire than he had predicted.
“I can’t get them to initiate the money. It’s just a quagmire.”
From Salon
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
She is simply not interested in the “you always,” “I never” emotional quagmires a gridlocked freeway or rerouting decision can churn up.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
