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Recent Examples of mud
There’s no mud seizing at my boots, sticking me down.
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Rachel Raposas, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Dealing with spring snowmelt, rain, mud, and muck is what brings the American Northeast, Southeast, and Northwest—and most places in between—together.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2025
Passes can be obtained daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Pacific Coast Highway was reopened between Santa Monica and Malibu early Monday, but a stretch of the roadway was closed later Monday due to fears of possible debris or mud flows caused by two storms bearing down on the region.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans:
Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
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Rachel Raposas, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Dealing with spring snowmelt, rain, mud, and muck is what brings the American Northeast, Southeast, and Northwest—and most places in between—together.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2025
Passes can be obtained daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Pacific Coast Highway was reopened between Santa Monica and Malibu early Monday, but a stretch of the roadway was closed later Monday due to fears of possible debris or mud flows caused by two storms bearing down on the region.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans:
Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mud
Noun
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There 100% would've been road bumps and conflicts, but not this agonizingly repetitive sludge.—
Anthony Slater,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The document indicated the waste may have included alum mud — a potentially radioactive sludge and byproduct of aluminum processing.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Rory McIlroy lifted it out of the muck yet somehow controlled the 88-yard shot so well the ball caught the back of the green and spun back to 6 inches from the pin.—
Brody Miller,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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His character, Leclerc, is a member of the mission's team, and photos show him in the muck alongside Zora and Duncan.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Start with the live animal exhibits and displays in the Nature Center, and then venture outdoors along gravel paths and boardwalks through a hardwood forest and a cypress-tupelo swamp.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
5 Feb. 2025
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Flood impacts include minor inundation of parking lots and nearby gravel roads and low-level overflow into adjacent areas.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Something about watching the sunset with your toes in the sand just hits different.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2025
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There were terns – with their yellow beaks and black heads – stumbling about having seizures on the sand.—
Gabrielle Emanuel,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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