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[muhd] / mʌd /


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“I just don’t think the experience is worth having to survive a week of whiteouts and extreme mud if it rains,” she added.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

Then, when it rains — like it did this year — the mud can become thick and ankle-deep.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

Rescue teams are racing to clear out the tunnels, choked with hardened mud and rock.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

He appeared alert, but his hands were covered in thick, wet mud.

From Barron's Sep. 5, 2026

His feathers were all ruffled and he was smeared with mud from his head to his tail.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“Getting washed away, built over, snowed in, mudded, overgrown.”

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

In 2017 MLB did not offer much guidance on how a baseball was supposed to be mudded up, so it was difficult to punish a team for it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2021

Then an L.A. pitcher approached his front office with an observation: The balls that the Astros were using were mudded up differently.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2021

This time, the Dodgers thought that the Astros had balls mudded up more heavily for their pitchers, and that the batboy would deliver those to the ump during innings when the Dodgers were batting.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2021

Old Tallow’s cabin was small, neat, thickly mudded between logs.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

He explained he would go out at night and change into black clothing to go "mudding" - where his "self-loathing" would cause him to cover himself in mud.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2023

They also take part in activities like searching a nearby lake for crappie fish with their bare hands or going mudding with monster trucks.

From Seattle Times Jul. 2, 2023

It hits him: “I lost the effort, the hustle, the mudding, and the megaphone. I lost the fun.”

From The Guardian Oct. 26, 2020

TimMorgan @ @ @ No. Ms Konigsburg is critisizing the Hobbit and Jackson is mudding the waters for all those who have not read all of Tolkien's work,as I have.

From Time Jan. 5, 2013

He had a wife, Nancy, and three children, and his own house, which he had built with his own hands, a small tight adobe that required mudding every two or three autumns.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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