mired

[Victor Steinbok]

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On 1/3/2012 11:03 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> I came across the following comment in a news story
>
>> “We were continuing to be mired, and I think it’s important to move
>> legislation forward,” he said in an interview.
>
> The naked "mired" bothered me somewhat, so I was happy to discover
> that this seems to be perfectly ordinary formation (quite old, in
> fact). But then I started to compare quotes for mire v.1 and mired
> adj. Here's a partial list without dates, sources--or article ID.
>
>> Many of its competitors remained mired in bankruptcy.
>> Even though we are mired down in theoretical analyses, the reason why
>> the Third World is so desperate for some kind of new world order
>> begins to come through.
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