mire
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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
After routing their bitter rivals 4-1 in November, they made the short trip up the Seven Sisters Road to inflict another humiliating defeat that pushed Tottenham deeper into the relegation mire.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 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
He was learning the tricky balance of spadework—deep enough to make a clean cut, but not so deep as to bury the spade head in the mire.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
Vocabulary lists containing mire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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