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But as Cara Giaimo writes for Slate, algae enthusiasts are finding tremendous joy in all the muck.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

"I am so happy to be away from all the muck," she said.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

The streets of America did not need to be paved with gold; it would suffice to be less mired in muck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch,” the editors continued.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

Ugh, just the thought of having to eat that muck makes me want to throw up!

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

When it gets grittier, the handheld camera comes in, as Pine mucks about in the mud and literally goes underground to find the truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

To the public, Zucker is the one- or two-season guest star who joins the workplace drama ensemble and mucks up the joint.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2022

That makes teams more inclined to take penalties, which further mucks up games.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 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

As she tells it, she was depicting a fantasy, and people didn’t need their fantasies mucked up by seeing the whole truth.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Beyond the $500 buy-in, entry into the stacked poker den has become its own kind of currency, where talk of bad beats and mucked hands replaces the usual industry chatter.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

“The assumption is that the new tissue, whatever you put in there, is going to heal slower because the environment has already been kind of mucked around with,” Altchek said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

There's a sense he has mucked up and defending him is difficult.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

But weirdo me, I was bom with too much grease inside my skull, and it got all thick and muddy and disgusting, and it only mucked up the works.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

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

The wild card in the movie, and one whose fierce devotion to mucking things up isn’t well explained, is Barry Keoghan as a motorbike-riding blond agent of chaos, Ormon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Burns said she always liked matching taller players against shorter players and the inverse, mucking up the opposing team’s vision on the court to force turnovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

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

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

I have progressed to mucking out when Diamond Joe comes up behind me.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen