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  • verb Present participle of mire.

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Examples

  • Traditional Ibans use the 'miring' ceremony to ward off bad spirits and bade luck and such a ceremony was performed when Ungkok's gravestone was shifted.

    mental jog Lucia 2010

  • This comes at a time when for-profit institutions like Kaplan University, part of Washington Post Co.'s Kaplan higher-education unit, have come under fire from the U.S. Department of Education for supposedly miring students in debt.

    Dean at For-Profit Kaplan Seeks to Raise Standards Diana Middleton 2011

  • They are rabbit trails designed to distract from the point at hand by miring us in long, unsolvable, and previously discussed semantic gamesmanship.

    Behe 2009

  • Whatever happened at Prof Gates home is not a matter that a President should be miring himself in, and so publicly at that!

    NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly' 2009

  • Nixon and then Ford utterly screw up the country, miring us in pointless wars, trashing the economy and basically turning the Executive branch into a dictatorship.

    Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll 2010

  • He summons to his bedside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal.

    Jericho's Fall by Stephen L. Carter: Book summary 2010

  • They are rabbit trails designed to distract from the point at hand by miring us in long, unsolvable, and previously discussed semantic gamesmanship.

    Behe 2009

  • At least LBJ actually achieved civil rights and the Great Society before miring us in an unwinnable war – Truman did that without achieving anything at home, except purging some communists from the federal bureaucracy and seeing an awful labor law passed over his veto.

    Matthew Yglesias » Jimmy Carter 2010

  • While much of the credit for miring Arizona and the country in the spirit and letter of SB 1070's absurdity belongs to extremists and the politicians like Governor Jan Brewer who listen to them, another part of the responsibility actually belongs to one of the plaintiffs suing Brewer's Arizona - the Obama Administration.

    Roberto Lovato: Arizona Casts Obama as 'Frenemy' of SB-1070 2010

  • Never mind, if nothing comes out of Chilcot, then perhaps it might from the next hideously expensive inquiry in which the left insist on miring the nation.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

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