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It means Forest will know they need to capitalise soon or risk being dragged back into the mire of a relegation battle where reputations count for little and big names are feeling the heat.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Earlier on Sunday, a late Alexis Claude Maurice penalty took Augsburg to a 1-0 home win over rock-bottom Heidenheim, lifting the hosts six points clear of the relegation mire.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

But after reading “The Dream Factory,” you might like him better when he still had his feet in the Shoreditch mire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

The answer, according to the management team tasked with extricating the company from its financial mire, is that it was forced on the company by self-interested owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024

The rain fell upon us; and we waited in the mire for time to pass so we might make our dash across the flats.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

But there's no small amount of controversy when it comes to marshes, mires, fens, bogs, vernal pools, prairie ponds, pocosins, sloughs, small streams, seasonal streams, and rain-dependent streams.

From Salon ● May 2, 2023

As society mires its way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, health coverage has come into sharp focus for all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

In addition, FEO is using satellites to monitor water levels over time in EU-protected boreal wetlands called appa mires.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2021

But the author then mires the ensuing drama in a prosaic and thoroughly middle-class tale of maternal imperiousness and filial resentment.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

The orcs hindered by the mires that lay before the hills halted and poured their arrows into the defending ranks.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Casting Luddites as anti-technology has mired a historical labor uprising as a destructive tantrum thrown by fearful, hidebound cranks.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Mora has been mired in a contract dispute with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Co. revolving around his nectarine crop for the last few years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency, is mired in a big drawdown, as are most of the other major coins.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

The few rescues have offered a glimmer of hope in a tragedy that has shaken a country mired in an economic crisis that has depleted its capacity to respond to disasters.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Was he going to continue stumbling all around the country, hesitating, bumbling, waiting week after week with an army mired down in disease-infested marshes?

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Although the law’s opponents claimed it would cover trivial matters and end up miring federal courts in divorce, the number of claims were modest in scope and the abuse serious.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2021

He dropped to 24-43 in four seasons in Jacksonville, falling a few plays shy of the franchise’s first Super Bowl in 2017 and then miring near the bottom of the league since.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2021

Plaintiffs’ lawyers want to avoid miring their clients’ cases in lengthy courtroom wrangling over requests that filings be sealed or redacted.

From Reuters ● Jun. 25, 2019

The resin puddled and pooled, miring countless creatures "like a mini–La Brea Tar Pits," says paleontologist Ryan McKellar at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, Canada.

From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2019

The discoveries once again fractured the consensus about the early American history, miring it in dispute.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann