quagmire

Example Sentences

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More broadly, the growing risk of a widening and drawn-out war threatens the American economy, raising warnings of stagflation, a quagmire of stagnant growth and high inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

With a paucity of working capital and bank lending rates now exceeding 60%, both foreign and domestic firms are stuck in a quagmire.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The quagmire of falsified and lost records for Syria's missing children means surviving mothers and fathers are left to hunt from one institution to the next for any information at all.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

In a letter co-signed by nearly 2,500 business and trade organizations and sent to top congressional leaders, the group warned that such a policy would be a bureaucratic quagmire.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025

Once I ran into a flat piece of bottom land, and what seemed solid earth by the light of the moon was a marshy quagmire.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya