limbo
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The fighting is less intense than before, but persistent enough to leave all three arenas in an uneasy limbo between war and peace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Alberto Carvalho remains in limbo after a February FBI raid of his home and office.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Now stocks are entering a limbo period—the gap between the end of one earnings season and the beginning of the next.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
The experts are talking about a "lost generation" as more than one million under-24-year-olds are left in limbo, without a job or a training course that should lead them to one.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
The night reached such a depth of velvety blackness that he might have been suspended in limbo between Disapparition and Apparition.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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