limbo

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Recent Examples of limbo The program has been in legal and political limbo for years as courts have weighed its validity. Mandy Taheri billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 Now, several of those cases remain in legal limbo months into his presidency. Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2025 After directing nine mainline entries in the series, Kojima moved on from Konami to form his own studio, Kojima Productions, and developed the Death Stranding series, leaving the fate of Metal Gear in complete limbo — until now. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025 The singer hovers in a genre limbo. Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for limbo
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Noun
  • More Photo by Jayce Illman/Getty Images With only one year left on his deal with Racing Bulls, and the Red Bull higher-ups not favoring him for a senior team race seat, Tsunoda looked to be in a driver's purgatory, seemingly on the shop window for another team.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Colts are stuck in QB purgatory unless Anthony Richardson engineers a massive turnaround.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • National Park Service officials say there was no way to predict the Dragon Bravo Fire would turn into an inferno, jump containment lines and rip through the Grand Canyon's North Rim, leaving a historic lodge and 100 other structures in smoking ruin.
    Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Around 1,000 firefighters are battling the huge inferno—which was only 7 percent contained at the start of the week—amid gusty winds and dry conditions.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025

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