as in purgatory
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Recent Examples of limbo
With this ruling, the potential of the $2,000 check the president promised last fall has been held in limbo.
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Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 25 Feb. 2026
Mason Gooding discusses the post-Scream 6 limbo period and finally getting the call to return as Chad Meeks-Martin in Scream 7.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
Certain that her father drugged her and possibly raped her too, Caroline has been left in the limbo of the unproven.
—Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
For years, however, the men remained in legal limbo — neither convicted nor formally cleared.
—Austin Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
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Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 25 Feb. 2026
Mason Gooding discusses the post-Scream 6 limbo period and finally getting the call to return as Chad Meeks-Martin in Scream 7.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
Certain that her father drugged her and possibly raped her too, Caroline has been left in the limbo of the unproven.
—Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
For years, however, the men remained in legal limbo — neither convicted nor formally cleared.
—Austin Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limbo
Noun
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The result in the shorter term figures to be positive for shareholders, who faced more than two years of purgatory after the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, in the view of MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2026
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Often, they are pushed back to Belarus, where they get stuck in forest encampments along the border or in Minsk, in a kind of dangerous purgatory.—
Elizabeth Flock,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Given the tyrannical inferno that engulfed these precariously united states, my personal plights were mere embers, ashes, in the grand scheme of things.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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Times investigations uncovered the alert failure in January of last year, and later found that almost no fire trucks were in that side of the community as the inferno raged through.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Limbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limbo. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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