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bogs down
verb
Third person singular of bog down
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And historical inquiry inevitably bogs down in complexity.
It's crucial work, but the book bogs down in describing these negotiations.
"Driving Home" bogs down in those repetitions but is especially waterlogged by its comprehensiveness.
But Badkhen's prose often bogs down beneath a pile of adjectives.
The opera bogs down in Act 3, when Morosus attempts to divorce "Timidia".
But the second half, the long 11th variation, bogs down in endless melodic sequences and ostinatos.
It bogs down every potential advance, and poisons any attempt at solidarity.
The story never bogs down because Mr. Lohr tells it as a series of miniature biographies.
I'd eat this anywhere, unlike a duck confit and mushroom quesadilla ($7), which bogs down with gluey Brie.
There are flat spots and places where the reader, crossing and crisscrossing the West, inevitably bogs down.
Historic moments, he added, sometimes required judges to act "when the rest of our political structure bogs down".
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