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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
enmire . - adjective Immersed in
mire ;bogged down .
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Examples
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It is going to be an issue of pulling ourselves out of the mud, we're deeply enmired in this stuff.
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The police are enmired in bureaucracy but they are also wasting efforts massaging statistics with the governments tacit approval.
Archive 2007-08-19 Newmania 2007
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It is going to be an issue of pulling ourselves out of the mud, we're deeply enmired in this stuff.
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The police are enmired in bureaucracy but they are also wasting efforts massaging statistics with the governments tacit approval.
Come Into My Parlour .... Newmania 2007
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There are, you might understand, millions of American children who will never ski, they are enmired in a grinding poverty that beats them down and, because they have no health care, brings them an early death.
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PASOK, also enmired in corruption scandals, is gaining on the governing, supposedly conservative New Democracy, but the non-investment in Greek infrastructure has been a scandal for several decades.
Greeks protest Helen 2007
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They both promote the same scenarios and solutions that have enmired us in the current mess, and to continue to follow them leads us only deeper. by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 3: 52: 53 PM
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PASOK, also enmired in corruption scandals, is gaining on the governing, supposedly conservative New Democracy, but the non-investment in Greek infrastructure has been a scandal for several decades.
Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007
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They both promote the same scenarios and solutions that have enmired us in the current mess, and to continue to follow them leads us only deeper. by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 3: 52: 53 PM
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They both promote the same scenarios and solutions that have enmired us in the current mess, and to continue to follow them leads us only deeper. by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 3: 52: 53 PM
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