as in purgatory
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Recent Examples of limbo
The other 167 remain in limbo, with no infrastructure requiring that they be considered by the council or the department.
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Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
What’s happening with Phase 2 The broader Phase 2 expansion is still in limbo while Cavileer and Majestic work out their differences in court.
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Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2026
No available funding has been found, those people said, and the office remains in limbo.
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Chelsea Cirruzzo,
STAT,
25 June 2026
For now, a bipartisan housing bill and the renewal of a key spy program have become casualties of those standoffs, and their fate was in limbo as Senate Republicans left for the July 4 recess.
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David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
25 June 2026
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Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
What’s happening with Phase 2 The broader Phase 2 expansion is still in limbo while Cavileer and Majestic work out their differences in court.
—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2026
No available funding has been found, those people said, and the office remains in limbo.
—
Chelsea Cirruzzo,
STAT,
25 June 2026
For now, a bipartisan housing bill and the renewal of a key spy program have become casualties of those standoffs, and their fate was in limbo as Senate Republicans left for the July 4 recess.
—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limbo
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Cthulhu, who tricks the Minions into releasing his friends from purgatory.
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For much of his life, the pastor considered his immigration status akin to a legal purgatory.
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But Grand Junction’s cloudless blue sky gave no hint of the inferno that continued to ravage the Colorado-Utah border less than an hour away.
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The story detailed the first critical hours of the Palisades fire, when thousands of residents had to decide whether and how to flee the inferno.
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“Limbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limbo. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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