quagmire
Example Sentences
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Proposals, multiple points long, are being mooted by mediators racing to find a way out of this deepening quagmire.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 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
USC has found itself in a financial quagmire at an unsettled moment.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025
Meanwhile, the war in Iraq came to seem closer to a quagmire than he had predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Ron did very well until he reached the hinkypunk, which successfully confused him into sinking waist-high into the quagmire.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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