bog

He knew he should probably seek a permit but didn’t want to get bogged down in red tape.

“North” was a galvanizing book for its bog poems as well as sequences such as “Singing School” and “Whatever You Say Say Nothing”:

Sports move so fast that we don’t have time to get bogged down with approvals and multiple meetings to discuss one thing.

Companies would theoretically also be able to avoid opposition from communities that don’t want data centers in their backyards and sidestep regulations that bog down construction on Earth.

The movie doesn’t get bogged down in this kind of thing, but it does have a somber air and a looser, more digressive plot than its predecessor.