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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

They need to, whatever they think about the overall direction of the club, because Palace are in danger of getting dragged into the relegation mire.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024

Within weeks most of the horses died, their hooves rotting in the mire.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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 hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled water-courses.

From "The Two Towers" 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

His presidency was mired with frustration, but his later service in Congress, particularly his opposition to slavery, revealed a deeper, enduring legacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

I’m on my couch, still mired in Lord of the Flies.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

Connell and Marianne are not free, and Normal People becomes a tender, bruised meditation on how two people can keep miring themselves in misery even when happiness is within their reach.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2019

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann