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mired::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | involved |
brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion.
Examples of mired
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Lewis, mired in a shooting slump, was told he better hit some shots for his mom.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In the past, this failure to achieve mass production mired small auto start-ups.
From the washingtonpost.com
Over the past two decades, he has helped restructure dozens mired in bankruptcy.
From the washingtonpost.com
Al Franken is in front in the Minnesota race that is now mired in a court fight.
From the sltrib.com
A $27 million remodel of the center section became mired in delays and lawsuits.
From the sacbee.com
Shipp was mired in a shooting slump for the most critical stretch of the season.
From the sportingnews.com
For the fact is that, even as it turns 50, the EU is mired in a mid-life crisis.
From the economist.com
Still, McKee and colleagues found not all countries mired in debt are unhealthy.
From the timesunion.com
Mr. Kelly isn't mired in the electronic data or the search for scientific proof.
From the post-gazette.com
- A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Entangle: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
- Cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"
- Slop: deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop"
- A difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"
- Grind to a halt: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"
- Soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
- (mired) involved: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
- 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
