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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
For three decades, websites large and small have depended on search to help build their readership; now they’re caught in a philosophical quagmire.
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Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
Simply put, Democrats can escape their electoral quagmire by recognizing what successful liberal politicians understood until quite recently—that there's nothing compassionate or progressive about letting corporations exploit cheap foreign labor to undermine American workers.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
However, this path has led many young adults into a financial quagmire.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
The result has been a quagmire and a continuation of government ownership for much longer than originally intended.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
Simply put, Democrats can escape their electoral quagmire by recognizing what successful liberal politicians understood until quite recently—that there's nothing compassionate or progressive about letting corporations exploit cheap foreign labor to undermine American workers.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
However, this path has led many young adults into a financial quagmire.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
The result has been a quagmire and a continuation of government ownership for much longer than originally intended.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for quagmire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quagmire
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Compounding the sector’s overall predicament was the collapse of the federal government in December, forcing snap elections scheduled for Feb. 23.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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Much like the Europeans, Trump looks at the Taiwanese and has little sympathy with their predicament.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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Why isn’t there space for an organic unfurling, a messy tangle of threads that overlap and deviate?—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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Figuring out why tangles are so tricky could help scientists predict when people’s snap judgments about a physical situation are likely to be wrong, leading to unsafe reactions.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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Parallels run like the train tracks Davis and the cinematographer Pierre H. L. Désir Jr. depict — first as signifiers of the Great Migration and later, as L tracks cross and clatter, evoking Malaika and Nico’s upending romantic dilemma.—
Lisa Kennedy,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Without enough skilled workers, projects stall, costs rise, and economic progress slows, creating an epically problematic dilemma.—
Brynn Cooksey,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Many business owners fall into the trap of believing that busyness is the same as being productive.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Another slice of the trailer appears to be showing a chain of explosions going off, indicating that players might be able to set up more complex traps or breaches than currently.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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The company mentioned Pinterest naming pickles as a top trend for 2025 as another reason for the new flavor.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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So what makes this gentle would-be romance between a bookstore clerk and a pickle vendor so timeless, so endlessly appealing?—
Jason Bailey,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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While there may be a role for insurance, the sheer number of insurance products available today often creates more confusion than clarity for Americans, forcing them to wade through the morass of fine print that can be purposely misleading and sometimes fraudulent.—
Renee Hsia,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Brown stars as Xavier Collins, a secret service agent to the former President of the United States, Cal Bradford (James Marsden), who is entangled in a morass of intrigue when he is accused of killing his charge.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
16 Dec. 2024
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The fish thrive in rivers, creeks, ponds, and swamps with slow or still waters and are often found on vegetation, logs, and dead branches.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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The swamp is not being drained; it’s being filled with more water than the Panama Canal.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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Escaping career quicksand requires you to create your own playbook based on what matters to you.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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Of course academics and other people with more regular artist jobs can get harried, but then again so can artists trying to string together work on quicksand!—
Liana Finck,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Quagmire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quagmire. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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