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The country was slipping deeper into an economic and political morass, with inflation rising and public trust eroding.morass = difficult situation that frustrates progress
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The trail ended abruptly in a morass, forcing them to turn back and find higher ground.morass = ground too wet for walking
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The project turned into a bureaucratic morass of paperwork and approvals.morass = difficult situation that frustrates progress
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Nor could anyone in his family have foreseen that a chance discovery during this initial journey would ultimately turn him inward and away, drawing Chris and those who loved him into a morass of anger, misunderstanding, and sorrow. (source)
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I kept hoping for a reconciliation — she was my daughter after all, and I felt guilty about her, and I wanted to make it up to her — to make up for the morass her childhood had become.† (source)
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The second time it happened, he glimpsed, from the corner of his eye, a figure standing in the depths of the shed, and he stumbled backward into the sunshine and stared into the gray morass of shadow.† (source)
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The thought of fighting with her reduced me to a morass of the qualities I thought I hadn't inherited from my family: stress, sadness, fear, anxiety.† (source)
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For four years, now, Jurgis had been wondering and blundering in the depths of a wilderness; and here, suddenly, a hand reached down and seized him, and lifted him out of it, and set him upon a mountain-top, from which he could survey it all—could see the paths from which he had wandered, the morasses into which he had stumbled, the hiding places of the beasts of prey that had fallen upon him.† (source)
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"I guess so," Meg said, but her happiness had fled and she was back in a morass of anger and resentment.† (source)
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The artillery would have been lost among the morasses.† (source)
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The rain might have stopped, but the compound was still a morass of shallow lakes and slippery mud.† (source)
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Two of the sweeping bastions appeared to rest on the water which washed their bases, while a deep ditch and extensive morasses guarded its other sides and angles.† (source)
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They blossomed delicately white and iridescent out of the tidal morass.† (source)
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Contrary to the usual practice of the men of their caste, this party had left the fertile bottoms of the low country, and had found its way, by means only known to such adventurers, across glen and torrent, over deep morasses and arid wastes, to a point far beyond the usual limits of civilised habitations.† (source)
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The best thing you can do right now is stay out of my way, or else I may be forced to ram that blue rinse straight into that morass you call a brain.† (source)
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Sunk up to his neck in a morass of dead brandies and rotting flowers, he flung the dirt of the garden all about after having finished with the courtyard and the backyard, and he excavated so deeply under the foundations of the east wing of the house that one night they woke up in terror at what seemed to be an earthquake, as much because of the trembling as the fearful underground creaking.† (source)
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