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"It's messy up there right now, but I'm trying to get in the mess," Riley says.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

America’s obsession with the Latino vote has become a ritual as slippery and messy as a grunion run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Among other challenges, singer and guitarist Josh Homme, the leader since its 1996 founding, went through a messy divorce and was diagnosed with and treated for cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

If Democratic Sen. Gary Peters—who in congressional terms is but a 67-year-old whippersnapper—had sought reelection, the messy primary that set up Stevens’ about-face never would’ve happened.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Numbers are so clean and elegant; people are so messy and complicated.”

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

Unlike messier domains, math has been governed by precise rules of logic for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

As a result, he says, "I think readers are coming to value very obviously personal writing, and maybe even writing that's messier, less structurally sound or composed or perfected, than they maybe once would've desired."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Black holes are often compared with cosmic vacuum cleaners, but their feeding behavior is much messier.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

It becomes a little compressed, a little messier and somehow more itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

And then, in a messier scrawl, I write: My ballet school has always been my sanctuary.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The settlement that was announced Monday between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni looked like the end of one of Hollywood’s messiest recent legal fights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Of all the fronts in the AI wars—funding, electricity, chips—the messiest is the fight for human capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

But the messiest part is likely yet to come.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

Her untidy nights of cake with friends on the floor of an old house are our warmest and messiest memories.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2023

The area around my bed was the messiest part of the room, except for the area under my bed, which was even worse.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata