purgatory
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They feel like suburban purgatory, liminal implying a state in between reality and dream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
For now, counties like Hood remain stuck in purgatory, watching rapid development overwhelm their communities while waiting for state policy to catch up.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Helima Croft: We are in a cease-fire-with-no-oil purgatory.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“I happen to have a bit of experience ... in my own rebuilding purgatory in the Palisades,” Pratt said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Bounds had been set to this unhallowed purgatory.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He could ask Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans for forgiveness over not righting their untenable political purgatories.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Even the absurdist purgatories and in-between spaces of Beckett, whose language has the same kind of circuitousness, take us someplace, even if we ultimately end up back where we started.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Treasury officials, who are trying to brace the public for refund delays, service disruptions, interminable telephone-hold purgatories and other unpleasantries that taxpayers will face over the next few months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
These upheavals and tragedies pierce the illusions we have constructed and leave us trapped and spellbound in self-inflicted and imposed purgatories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
The unctuous plausibility of the pretense that prisons are beneficent purgatories and not hells renders it the more sickening.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne
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