as in purgatory
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Recent Examples of limbo
There is no real way to know, of course, if that tree had been damaged by Helene, hanging around through six months of limbo, just waiting to interrupt my water break.
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 20 June 2025
Sadly, these cases are becoming more frequent, involving fake leases and fraudulent rental scams that target unsuspecting renters and leave property owners in legal limbo.
—J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
Thus, enslaved people in Texas lived in limbo, their freedom officially granted but practically denied.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
The deal has been in legal and regulatory limbo for months, primarily due to a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against CBS News.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 June 2025
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 20 June 2025
Sadly, these cases are becoming more frequent, involving fake leases and fraudulent rental scams that target unsuspecting renters and leave property owners in legal limbo.
—J.b. Jennings, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
Thus, enslaved people in Texas lived in limbo, their freedom officially granted but practically denied.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
The deal has been in legal and regulatory limbo for months, primarily due to a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against CBS News.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limbo
Noun
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Regardless of what’s keeping indicators in purgatory, business-friendly Republicans have two ways of dealing with it: eliminating the uncertainty that’s within their control — which means passing a tax bill — and getting accustomed to the rest.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
20 June 2025
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Everything else resides in a permanently fuzzy, unsettled background, a constant middle distance that traps the characters in their spiritual purgatory.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Climate change is a major contributor, as drought and rising global temperatures make the infernos bigger, faster and harder to stop.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
3 July 2025
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And days before the Formula One Grand Prix in Jeddah in March 2022, the Houthi rebels fired a missile at an oil storage facility in the Saudi city and an inferno of fire and smoke filled the skyline.—
Dina Esfandiary,
Time,
1 July 2025
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“Limbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limbo. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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