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are wallowing
  • present progressive of wallow.

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Pointing the finger at "naysayers", and "blockers" whoever the people are who are wallowing in the tepid bath he described is a deliberate decision.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

“But I hope that even if I lost in this fight, my fellow Filipinos who are wallowing in poverty were a winner too.”

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2022

People who “want to flee not just their homes but the reality of 2020” are wallowing in online home listings to daydream about alternate realities, my colleague Taylor Lorenz reported.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2020

However, you cannot do that singularly and not look back at those who are in front of your face every single day who are starving, who are wallowing in poverty.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2019

As I said before, the detectives are wallowing around in the mire of the lower West Side—they are in the valley, so to speak.

From The Secret Toll by Thorne, Paul And Mabel