Example Sentences

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This, he worried, would lead to people being “pulled into a treatment and disability regime that will mire them in a self-fulfilling vision of a brain rewired, a psyche permanently haunted.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2016

But this time, projections are for a much slower recovery that will mire America's most populous state in high unemployment and perpetuate $20 billion budget shortfalls for years to come.

From Reuters • Jan. 3, 2011