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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
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Examples
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And I think there's urgency because I think this group of the black poor, it's bad for all of us the longer they remain mired where they are right now.
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Yes, but it may not be too soon to tell whether we struck the right balance — it seems fairly clear that compared to the Chinese we did far too little and thus remain mired in slow growth.
Matthew Yglesias » Chinese Growth Strong, Inflation Fears Mounting 2010
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And I think there's urgency because I think this group of the black poor, it's bad for all of us the longer they remain mired where they are right now.
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And while tens of millions have benefited from India's rise, many more remain mired in some of the worst poverty in the world.
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Yes, but it may not be too soon to tell whether we struck the right balance — it seems fairly clear that compared to the Chinese we did far too little and thus remain mired in slow growth.
Matthew Yglesias » Chinese Growth Strong, Inflation Fears Mounting 2010
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And I think there's urgency because I think this group of the black poor, it's bad for all of us the longer they remain mired where they are right now.
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Instead, no level of traditional institutions of education teach such courses and instead remain mired in curriculums skewed towards theory and not applicability such as statistics, economics 101, marketing and finance.
Young Adults Need To Seek Wealth Literacy, Not Financial Literacy « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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LaBarbera made 25 saves for the Kings, who have lost four of six and remain mired at the bottom of the Western Conference standings.
USATODAY.com 2007
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One can be forgiven that Russia sees The USA and Britain mired in what appears to be now both a political and possibly a military defeat in Iraq and is choosing this moment to begin to demonstrate to other impressionable nations that there is another player on the block.
Bears Fly to Guam 2007
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One can be forgiven that Russia sees The USA and Britain mired in what appears to be now both a political and possibly a military defeat in Iraq and is choosing this moment to begin to demonstrate to other impressionable nations that there is another player on the block.
Archive 2007-08-05 2007
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