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as in predicament
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
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
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Recent Examples of quagmire
Computer technology had gotten us into this millennial quagmire, and, therefore, it would not be trusted to extricate us from it.
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Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Ultimately, there may be no way for Israel to escape its smart-bomb delusion—or another quagmire in the Middle East.
—Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
If these quagmires plague your group chats, allow Olivia Rodrigo to serve up the perfect GNO outfit formula.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 June 2025
The agreement is a welcome reprieve for the Trump administration, whose war against the Houthis was threatening to become something of a quagmire.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Ultimately, there may be no way for Israel to escape its smart-bomb delusion—or another quagmire in the Middle East.
—Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
If these quagmires plague your group chats, allow Olivia Rodrigo to serve up the perfect GNO outfit formula.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 June 2025
The agreement is a welcome reprieve for the Trump administration, whose war against the Houthis was threatening to become something of a quagmire.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for quagmire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quagmire
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Talking about his predicament in a shaded wedge of grass near the center of Harvard Yard, Sial speaks with a mixture of passion, frustration and weariness, pushing back the shaggy hair that frequently falls over his eyes.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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All of that resonates with the predicament of Lily Bart.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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English also says that protective or tight styles can also lead to matting if left in too long, by compacting tangles at the base.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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Aside from Blast vacuuming, the X9 improves on the X8 by adding zero-tangle technology to the side brush and the main brush.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Fowler acknowledged the dilemma.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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However, critics point out weak eligibility criteria that may extend coal-plant lifetimes unnecessarily and may prolong the dilemma, not rectify it.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The man, whom the magazine did not identify citing privacy concerns, cut his shin on a bait fish trap on a pier in an inlet that leads to the bay.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Her latest project, monitoring 50 camera traps in the understudied Atascosa highlands region in southern Arizona resulted in a remarkable discovery.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Thompson uses native Samui vegetables like pak hued (young buds for pickles), bottle gourd leaves, bitter gourd leaves, and root vegetables like mun khee noo in spicy curry soups.—
Jenn Rice,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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One editor liked the strong pickle flavor, and said the potato-to-dressing ratio was spot on.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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That failure is symbolized most starkly in the mute dissolution of his own group, formed to help save Chicago from its pension morass but which instead silently acquiesced in making that threat markedly worse.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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As to The Naked Gun and especially Happy Gilmore 2, both of these new films are driving through the morass of media content with a lot of years on their tire treads.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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On the coast, there is a swampy coastal plain with mangrove swamps.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Uncle Sam, already a $36 trillion debtor, dug himself deeper into financial quicksand.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Does TikTok go the Twitter-ian way of far-right quicksand pit?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
9 July 2025
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“Quagmire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quagmire. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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