Examples of quagmire in a Sentence

A Girl of the Limberlost is a Cinderella story whose wicked stepmother, in an interesting twist, is the heroine's real mother. She is a crazy person, deranged by grief for a husband who was sucked into a quagmire before her eyes when she was pregnant with Elnora. — Janet Malcolm, New York Review of Books, 15 Jan. 2009 That was six months ago, when the Defense secretary laughingly dismissed the idea that Iraq was, or could turn into, a quagmire. But as Rumsfeld sat down last Friday morning to face Sen. John McCain, who spent six years in a Vietnamese prison, no one was laughing. — Michael Hirsh et al., Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2003 State involvement will create a vast bioethical quagmire. Even if everyone magically agrees that improving a child's memory is as valid as avoiding dyslexia, there will still be things taxpayers aren't ready to pay for—genes of unproven benefit, say, or alterations whose downsides may exceed the upside. — Robert Wright, Time, 11 Jan.1999 the party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire: the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election a protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire

Recent Examples on the Web Securing adequate international health insurance, for example, became a bureaucratic quagmire. — Jim Olson, Fortune, "After 2020, we all need a gap year," 25 Dec. 2020 Doing so could give Intel access to third-party manufacturing technologies without entirely outsourcing its designs—and that might give Intel a rope to pull itself out of its own manufacturing quagmire. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Intel CEO considers bringing in outside help to aid manufacturing," 11 Jan. 2021 Without a grand jury to both hear evidence and recommend charges, the system falls into a quagmire. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "Jury trials resume on a test basis after monthslong pandemic hiatus," 13 Jan. 2021 So much has fed into our quagmire: a lack of national leadership, the perpetuation of misinformation. — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, "The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave," 13 Nov. 2020 For every prior authorization request, a provider can lose up to an hour or more wading through an administrative quagmire. — Brian Barnett, STAT, "Who’s choosing Americans’ medications — doctors or insurers? The bane of prior authorization," 1 Jan. 2021 The money goes to an athletic department and university in the midst of a longstanding financial quagmire further complicated by COVID-19. — courant.com, "Mike Anthony: UConn basketball season ticket holders have gifted nearly $2 million to university; fans shut out, but continue to chip in," 31 Dec. 2020 Instead, the two sides agreed to a narrower pact that still allows trade without tariffs or quotas, but throws thousands of businesses into a bureaucratic quagmire and leaves Britain’s enormous financial services sector in limbo. — Los Angeles Times, "Auld lang syne: Britain and the EU finally part ways," 31 Dec. 2020 Even his status as a viable backup is now in question, as the 49ers’ quarterback predicament is a quagmire, a black hole, with no clear way out. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "Poster team for 2020 sports? How about 49ers?," 20 Dec. 2020

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