limbo
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May angels accompany Pope Leo’s mail-in ballot from the Vatican to the proper Chicago precinct so it doesn’t get sequestered in permanent limbo by the Justice Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
That limbo, which for some of the named plaintiffs has lasted more than a year, has prevented them from moving forward in other ways in their financial lives, attorneys for the borrowers say.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Its media spokesperson, Dan Newcombe, said they had been left in limbo.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The US still does not have an ambassador stationed in Brasilia, and Brazil's ambassador to Washington finds herself in limbo after her US visa was revoked.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Between the other vendors—totally beaten and ailing itinerants whose names are something like Buddy, Pal, Sport, Top, Buck, and Ace—and my customers, I am apparently trapped in a limbo of lost souls.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The four teams have a cumulative winning percentage of .284, which easily limbos under the all-time low-mark of .344 set by the NFC West in 2008.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2020
Beyond censorship issues, very few prints tend to be struck in the first place and independent low-budget productions are often plagued by copyright limbos and distribution problems.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2018
Rendered in English, Spanish, sign language and gobbledygook, the dialogue and lyrics of “Runaways” are the universal vernacular of people trapped in that most painful of limbos, the period between childhood and adulthood.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2016
In several images, key figures are “spot-lit” while their companions occupy gray limbos.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2016
In various parts of the world we find that children, at death, go to special limbos, purgatories, or heavens, and the folk-lore of the subject must be read at length in the mythological treatises.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
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