muck

You don’t want to muck bait it and drag it out for the sake of dragging it out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

If 100 influencers wanted to post selfies of themselves curbside in the muck at Dwars door Vlaanderen, I would fly to Belgium to carry their ring lights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

A resident in the area, who asked not to be named, told the BBC a muck spreader, which are normally used to distribute farmyard manure, had been used to spread medical waste.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Here’s another running bit that would be so easy to muck up or exploit.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

The ground is soft and marshy, cluttered in the soggy brown muck of decayed leaves, squishy lumps of moss.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Whether one mucks in for the full ride or just appreciates the concept, duration is part of the art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

Their clandestine love brings some bucolic light and energy to a movie that often mucks about in Mikolasek’s dim, gray clinic.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

It’s almost as if they are on security detail, making sure nobody mucks up their treasured characters and stories, which is perfectly understandable.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

Carbonate and sulphate of lime are large ingredients of the ashes of about one-half, of the thirty-three peats and swamp mucks I have examined.

From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Samuel W. (Samuel William) Johnson

These shows are much more vital when the cast stops fighting or toiling in the same drama they’ve been mucked in for years.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

I think he royally mucked up this whole process, starting with his ill-considered promise back in March 2021 to appoint a Black woman to replace Feinstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Trainer has organised a minibus for 8am to take stable staff to Aintree on Saturday after they have mucked out and ridden horses at his stables near Cardiff.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023

Matty Beniers and Jaden Schwartz mucked the puck out of a cluster of bodies along the boards and Beniers tapped it to Dunn, who extended his league-best, personal-best and franchise-best point streak to 12 games.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

After a spell of ill-health, Hart, 53, hopes "the joy of mucking about on television again will hopefully outweigh some of the challenges".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

But the journey from two teenagers "mucking about with plasticine" to an Oscar-winning animation powerhouse has often hinged on chance decisions, practical compromises and creative instinct.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Proponents like Liverpool owner John Henry wound up apologizing for mucking with the product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

And that means finding a problem, guessing how it can be answered or solved, and then mucking around.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

I can hear her mucking around in there, and I call out to see if she needs any help.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak