quagmire

Example Sentences

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Any such ambition raises the potential for quick actions to become quagmires.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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