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Meanings of mired in English

Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.

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Usage of mired in English
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Sea level rise has become mired in the debate over climate change.
Reuters
2
Eurotunnel remained mired in crisis talks with its creditors until last year.
The Irish Times
3
The Morgan case is mired in claims of police and media corruption.
The Guardian
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Yet his society could not have advanced far, mired in such fatalism!
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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With government policies mired in bureaucracy, the U.N. has offered to help.
Reuters
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Story time with Msholozi Sadly, it is a story mired in racism.
The South African
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Last year, one man mired in that cycle met a notorious end.
Reuters
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The guns were mired and had to be left in the road.
The Downfall
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Shahzad's American career began in disappointment and was mired in that house.
The Guardian
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Great writers transcend their times, but second-rate writers are mired by theirs.
The new yorker
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Predators leading scorer Filip Forsberg is mired in a five-game point drought.
Reuters
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His horse got mired in a swamp with the pursuers close behind.
Hero Tales of the Far North
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A great hackney-coach nigh mired in mud as it lumbered through mid-road.
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
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He had moved up the MS-13 ranks, but remains mired in poverty.
Reuters
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Why are so many Blacks still mired in poverty and disproportionately destitute?
Ebony
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Many went into sticky tar and became as mired as their machines.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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Ireland
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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