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Recent Examples of mud
And as their defense faltered, their offense was stuck in the mud, the misses piling up until Redick mercifully pulled his regulars in the final minute.
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Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
From clothing to fingernails, everything is soot and mud and ash and blood.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Split open at the seam and tender female feet
urged in to keep the damp and mud at bay; slippers of a sort.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
This version of the West is all gray skies, dirty snow and bearded men caked in mud and blood.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
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Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
From clothing to fingernails, everything is soot and mud and ash and blood.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Split open at the seam and tender female feet
urged in to keep the damp and mud at bay; slippers of a sort.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
This version of the West is all gray skies, dirty snow and bearded men caked in mud and blood.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mud
Noun
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Sewage sludge has now been spread on millions of acres across the country.—
Hiroko Tabuchi,
New York Times,
27 Dec. 2024
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Despite the film’s best efforts to melt its characters into the vast sludge of superhero cinema, the union between Eddie and Venom is simply too pure to be diluted down to nothing.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
23 Oct. 2024
Noun
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This season, the valley bottom is still soggy with slush and muck—difficult conditions to work in for forester and fourth-generation Idaho local Chad Ramsay.—
Katie Bradish,
Outside Online,
15 Jan. 2025
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Inside mountains like these are crushed up bits of black-shale formations, which form from the organic muck accumulated at the bottom of seas, heated and compressed over time.—
Justin Nobel,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Start your search at the closest gravel or sand pit near your home.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
25 Jan. 2025
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On a recent Thursday afternoon, the snow had just melted enough to reveal headstones embedded in the cold ground, but the gravel paths are still slick with ice.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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At some points, people visibly struggled to get through, with wheelchairs and strollers getting stuck in the deep sand.—
Abeer Salman,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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King Charles himself ends up visiting one of the libraries during his visit to Kenya and while many on staff wish to draw a line in the sand to stop this event, Shiro and Wachuka know doing so could threaten their ultimate goals.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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