knee-deep in

Raquell Barton was knee-deep in her doctorate program at the University of Memphis when her husband dropped a bomb on her: he wanted a divorce.

Standing knee-deep in an emerald expanse, a row of trees offering respite from the sweltering heat, Rosa Morales diligently relocates chipilín, a Central American legume, from one bed of soil to another.

He was knee-deep in attempts to overturn the 2020 election, even laying out a road map for the steal, and was jailed for ignoring a congressional subpoena.

But nothing works quite as well as standing knee-deep in a pristine Montana river.

“It takes time to investigate, and then once we are knee-deep in the investigation, it’s A.I., and then what do we do with this going forward?”