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> 考えれば考えるほど、もはや「詰んでいる」としか思えない。

context: speaker is fucked

> The more i think about it, the more... hopeless it seems???

just stabbing at the last part based on the context, i did read

[もはや used with
しか](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/39069/%E3%82%82%E3%81%AF%E3%82%84-used-
with-%E3%81%97%E3%81%8B/39070)

but the explanations for もはや + しかないare very difficult to digest.

Thank you
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use of もはや in this sentence
"The more I think about it, the more I realize that, _at this point_ (=もはや),
_the only possible conclusion_ (=としか思えない) is that it's already a checkmate
(=詰んでいる)."

もはや is "already, already at this point". You can think of it as a more
dramatic もう. としか思えない is "I cannot think of it except as…", that is, "the only
possible conclusion is that…"

A less clumsy translation would be something like: "The more I think about it,
the more I realize it's already over for me" (or her/me/them/etc.)
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