quagmire
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That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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
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
"I am glorious still! Do you not know who raised humanity out of the quagmire of the Dark Ages?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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