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Discover LudwigThe phrase "to mire" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to become stuck, trapped, or bogged down in something. It is typically used in a figurative sense to describe a difficult or challenging situation. For example: - "The project was starting to mire under the weight of conflicting opinions from the team members." - "After months of negotiations, the peace talks continue to mire in disagreement." - "She tried to offer her help, but only ended up getting herself mired in the family's drama."
Dictionary
to mire
verb
To weigh down.
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It is not the first, nor will it be the last, congregation to mire itself in anguish over its leader.
Rather than a proving ground, the province, because of its size and the scope and complexity of its problems, tends to mire its leaders in controversy and overexposure.
Montebourg said the "incorrect" austerity policies followed by the European Central Bank and EU member states had "continued to mire the eurozone in recession and soon, deflation".
Good intentions have not lost their power to devastate or to mire the earnest bearers of them in the Hindu Kush.
In "Dereliction of Duty," McMaster's book on Vietnam, he described how Lyndon Johnson's top generals allowed the President to mire American troops in Vietnam with no possible strategy and no public candor.
His first aim is to keep the economy growing fast enough to stave off unrest, while weaning it off an over-dependence on investment in property and infrastructure that threatens to mire it in debt.
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He made £5.3 million in 2011 and that's with handing back a bonus, due to miring the company in a 'costly failed takeover bid'.
That the man who produces something shall be able to carry it to market without miring to the hub, without toll.
He refuses to allow himself to become mired.
Those likely to be deported to Afghanistan — mired in conflict since the US-led invasion of 2001 — will be of particular concern.
More is likely to be lost this summer and fall; another Afghan bank appears to be mired in fraud and is likely to need a cash infusion.
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