as in purgatory
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Recent Examples of limbo
State regulators last year took a synthetic opioid known as 7-OH off Florida shelves, but lawmakers ended the legislative session March 13 without backing up the move, leaving the substance’s future in legal limbo.
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Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2026
Millions of Gen Z are ending up as NEET—not in employment, education, or training—and stuck in a limbo that college was supposed to prevent.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Also in legal limbo is a Justice Department probe into Powell and his testimony to Congress about Fed headquarters renovations.
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026
Its 2019 constitution grants citizens the right to demonstrate, but a law more specifically defining that right is stalled in the legislature, leaving those who take to the street in legal limbo.
—Dave Sherwood, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2026
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Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2026
Millions of Gen Z are ending up as NEET—not in employment, education, or training—and stuck in a limbo that college was supposed to prevent.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Also in legal limbo is a Justice Department probe into Powell and his testimony to Congress about Fed headquarters renovations.
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 18 Mar. 2026
Its 2019 constitution grants citizens the right to demonstrate, but a law more specifically defining that right is stalled in the legislature, leaving those who take to the street in legal limbo.
—Dave Sherwood, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limbo
Noun
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For six of the last seven years, this franchise has been wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of baseball purgatory.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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In companies that break out of AI purgatory, the CIO doesn’t own the work alone.—
Keith Ferrazzi,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One night in early March, an Iranian writer and dissident climbed to the roof of his apartment building, in Tehran, to marvel at a towering inferno that had blanketed the sky in smoke.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Carlsbad’s late first-quarter surge became an inferno in the second, with the Lancers going on a 5-0 run over the final 12 minutes of the half to take an 8-3 lead.—
Clark Fahrenthold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Limbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limbo. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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