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She found herself in a legal quagmire after signing a contract she didn’t understand.quagmire = difficult situation
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The truck sank into a quagmire and couldn’t move without being towed.quagmire = soft, muddy area
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She fears the U.S. is stepping into another quagmire like the war in Afghanistan.quagmire = difficult situation
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The hikers got stuck walking through a quagmire after heavy rain turned the trail into deep mud.quagmire = soft, muddy area
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She knew his favorite lagoons and paths through difficult quagmires; always following him at a safe distance. (source)quagmires = soft wet areas of low-lying land that sink underfoot
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It would've been a nice view, with the river and the trees and hills and all, except for the quagmire of horse muck. (source)quagmire = a soft wet area that sinks underfoot
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Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance.† (source)
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But the woman interviewer from AnooYoo about whom he'd had such hopes was never seen again, and the other women he encountered, at the office or in the AnooYoo bars, were either mean-minded eye-the-target sharks or so emotionally starved even Jimmy avoided them as if they were quagmires.† (source)
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It is not alone that forlornly lovely, nostalgic landscape which creates the frequent likeness—the quagmiry but haunting monochrome of the Narew River swampland, for example, with its look and feel of a murky savanna village of Galicia, where by only the smallest eyewink of the imagination one might see whisked to a lonesome crossroads hamlet in Arkansas these ramshackle, weather-bleached little houses, crookedly carpentered, set upon shrubless plots of clay where scrawny chickens fuss and peck—but in the spirit of the nation, her indwellingly ravaged and melancholy heart, tormented into its shape like that of the Old South out of adversity, penury and defeat.† (source)
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Ron did very well until he reached the hinkypunk, which successfully confused him into sinking waist-high into the quagmire.† (source)
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It was a heavy rain, turning roads to mud and fields to quagmires, swelling the rivers and stripping the trees of their leaves.† (source)
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Mostly I saw Rose as my savior, showing me the way through this quagmire we had gotten into, but sometimes she affected me that barking dog way, never resting for all the alarms there were to sound.† (source)
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The marshes were bewildering and treacherous, and there was no permanent trail even for Rangers to find through their shifting quagmires.† (source)
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Annie's driveway was flooded, and her yard was a quagmire of mud, standing water, and gobbets of melting snow.† (source)
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Before we cast away the solid assurances of national armaments for self-preservation we must be certain that our temple is built, not upon shifting sands or quagmires, but upon the rock.† (source)
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We seem to be in a quagmire here; it might be helpful.† (source)
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