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“There are big companies that have a lot of money, deep pockets — they could suffocate you, they can bog you down in litigation to the point where you can’t financially match them,” Colter said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

One such bog in Sweden called Gullåkra, “fields of gold,” served as a site of ritual sacrifice for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ground-nesting birds such as hen harriers rely on open, treeless bog, safe from predators that would otherwise perch and watch for prey, while the wet ground breeds the invertebrates chicks are fed on.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Proponents of the philosophy say it reduces management layers that bog down decision-making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Instead, he determined the companions would travel some distance from the edges of the swamp, keeping to solid ground and following a path half-circling the bog until they reached the moors.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

More recently, bogs have been recognized as extraordinarily dynamic ecosystems that preserve thousands of years of the earth’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then in 1857, the regime of Emperor Napoleon III ordered the planting of maritime pines to drain the bogs of southwestern France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The charity says it's working to raise water tables where bogs have been drained and create new areas of standing water for fire fighting.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Tackling the High Fens fire was made much harder by the fens' terrain -- a patchwork of heath, peat bogs and raised wooden boardwalks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Leaning against the door of the bogs, Pete Redmarley flicked a Minstrel into the air and caught it in his mouth.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Regarding his strategy for dealing with stress, Wilcox said: "My wife will know when I am bogged down with frustration. When I re-energise, I do it on my own. Me and the dog, walking."

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Don’t Have a Clue bag is a way to keep yourself from getting bogged down, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

With only the swirling sounds of an overhead air conditioning vent to cloud her thoughts, she explained that, at the beginning, “Estrus” was bogged down by an unprecedented wave of writer’s block.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

It was time-consuming, inefficient, prone to delays and misunderstandings and bogged down by missed return phone calls, especially before cellphones became universally used.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Now Mr. Patterson had me bogged down in some kind of investigation, and I wasn't supposed to talk about anything until he had outlined the clearest course of action.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

EU membership also risks bogging down Icelandic businesses in bureaucracy, she and other business leaders said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Late-arriving tax forms from partnerships and brokerage firms are also bogging down returns, O’Saben noted.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

But Kail’s fleet maneuvers keep the production from bogging down without lessening the emotional combustion that is the source of the playwright’s lasting genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

"For that potential purchase to best compliment Netflix, the planned split of WBD would make its studio more attractive without bogging it down with TV networks that aren't as agile as Netflix," Benes told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

Along a road running perpendicular to a river, the traffic thickened, bogging the ambulance down.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand