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Examples
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For years, the U.S. manufacturing sector seems to have been sliding into the Slough of Despond.
Analysis: Will Costs Drive Firms Home? John Bussey 2011
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Trips into the Slough of Despond have detained me, I'm afraid.
Archive 2010-06-01 Stroppy Author 2010
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But see Postcards from the Slough of Despond for someone who got a small amount of writing done.
No dogs allowed? Stroppy Author 2010
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But see Postcards from the Slough of Despond for someone who got a small amount of writing done.
Archive 2010-03-01 Stroppy Author 2010
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Until the Republican Party started sinking into the Slough of Despond, investors blithely treated the Bush tax cuts as permanent.
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Trips into the Slough of Despond have detained me, I'm afraid.
Thrale's Stroppy Author 2010
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Until the Republican Party started sinking into the Slough of Despond, investors blithely treated the Bush tax cuts as permanent.
Stromata Blog: 2008
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Thrill with wonder as Harry, with his friends Moses, St. Peter, Jibril and Rand-al-Thor struggle through the Slough of Despond to defeat the villainous Lannister family!
Klausner Backlash? 2007
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The presidential sock-buying spree at J.C. Penney in February did not reverse the Republic's slide into the Slough of Despond.
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Despond, which yawns for insolvent debtors; and after catching at each twig, and experiencing the protracted agony of feeling them one by one elude his grasp, he actually sunk into the miry pit whence he had been extricated by the professional exertions of
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