mire

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

When Root played a limp shot to chop on in the same over, England were in the mire.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

Some were tasked with pulling electrical cords out of the mire while others attempted to tidy up the bedlam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

The track to the Foresters' farm was bare mud, trodden into mire by the feet of horses and cows and sheep and dogs.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

Rather than high-tail it to Seattle, where a new life appears to await, Jo remains in New England and mires herself in a different family’s tumult.

From New York Times ● May 26, 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

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

Last year the contest was mired in scandal after it was noticed that some contestants' stones were suspiciously circular.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

He joins a list of at least 10 other representatives who have become mired in ethics accusations, on top of three members forced to resign this year over financial or sexual scandals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Kushner and Iger were mired in a lengthy battle to gain approval for an NBA expansion franchise Las Vegas and clearly viewed the Lakers as a better opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The country is also mired in multiple security crises -- from jihadists, non-ideological "bandit" gangs, farmers and herders fighting over land, and a simmering separatist conflict.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

She found a flat stone and put it under the mired wheel.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

“We want to be sure that this center enhances those efforts rather than duplicating them or miring them in unnecessary bureaucracy,” the Virginia Democrat said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

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

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