as in to trap
to place in conflict or difficulties
we were bogged down by the endless changes, and of course finished late
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That’s because all the air gets trapped in the elastic edges.—
Kelly Dawson,
Architectural Digest,
14 Mar. 2025 -
If your income is tied to your time, you can get trapped in an endless cycle of working just to keep the money flowing.—
Greg Clement,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Land a fiber-optic drone in the wrong spot and its millimeters-thick, through which the drone sends and receives signals, could get tangled.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Page, whose character is tangled in a complicated dynamic with Harris', framed the movie's tension as a battle between personal needs and global consequences.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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The broiling drums will always urge us onwards, and Blanche will always be caught somewhere in the half-light, trapped in a different dance under a paper moon.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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At such proximity the planet would broil at around 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to vaporize some metals.—
Dakotah Tyler,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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Third, climate action is increasingly embroiled in cultural wars.—
Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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For almost a year now, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been embroiled in one of rap’s most public and memorable beefs.—
Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Bog (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bog%20%28down%29. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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