muck
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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
On Sunk Island in rural Holderness, arable farmer Jono Dixon says he is careful to reduce the impact of spreading chicken muck on his land near Patrington Haven Leisure Park.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Here’s another running bit that would be so easy to muck up or exploit.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
But as Cara Giaimo writes for Slate, algae enthusiasts are finding tremendous joy in all the muck.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Breathless and stunned, I wander the trove, struggling to walk within the muck that fills the space between treasure piles.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
He picks up a hose and washes down his horse, mucks his own stall, spreads fresh bedding, while the rest of his team, his wife, walks their 2-year-old filly around the shedrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
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
Even though tennis industry officials and country club muckety mucks wrote dress codes that outlawed shorts, many women refused to adhere to the rules and continued showing up to play wearing them.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2018
Hope the rain mucks them up on her.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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
That’s the way nature designed it and how it worked for thousands of years until humans mucked it up — mostly as we overpopulated California after World War II.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
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
He looked down to check his watch, but it was as mucked up as the rest of him.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Proponents like Liverpool owner John Henry wound up apologizing for mucking with the product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
As Ms Hall was busy draining off the pasta in the sink, her partner of 27 years and their daughter were "mucking about by the back door".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
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
“There’s a system, you know. Just give them here, you’re mucking everything up!”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
