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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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Engineers moved earth and gravel from the mountains to rebuild the city center on a manmade plateau more than 20 feet high.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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They are typically made up of porous materials like sandstone, gravel or fractured rock, allowing water to flow through them.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The pumping of groundwater that seeps into construction sites could also cause sand layers to shift and rearrange.—
Denise Hruby,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2025
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The fun-seeking surfer, whose sunset silhouette on the famous movie poster defined a generation and whose fashion choices rubbed off on most everyone around him, parlayed his passion for waves into a lifetime of sand and sport on beaches across the globe.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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