muddy
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The helicopter he was on, hired by Rasuwagadhi, was unable to land at the location of the project, which was a muddy wasteland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Army personnel lowered themselves from the helicopter and clambered up a muddy slope to pull out people covered in mud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Aerial footage showed multi-storey buildings partially submerged by the muddy floodwaters, and a valley filled with dust and smoke.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Images shared by Nepali police showed floodwater surging through a river, sweeping away houses in its path, while AFP images depicted the top floor of a house sticking out from muddy soil.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The rain mixed with sleet that felt like needles against the skin, and the troika had to go slowly over the muddy roads, which were beginning to freeze.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
A second, the helpers, is a muddier designation.
From Salon ● May 9, 2025
The outlook for USC’s rushing attack may only get muddier from there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
In a statement issued through Cumbria Police, Mr and Mrs Cartmell said "Jay loved being outdoors" and "the muddier he could get the better".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
The muddy trail turned into a wider, even muddier trail, with a scattering of trading stores on either side.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
This is likely due to the high silt content of the riverbed; the Yellow River—the muddiest in the world—is named for the heavy loads of silt it carries.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 10, 2022
“It’s a high road and, as all the muddiest are, both unassailable pure and also solidly earthed.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
On the second lap, I tripped and fell in a woodsy area coating myself with the muddiest mud.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 11, 2019
Freedman's people are the ones with the muddiest shoes and wettest clothes, the people with the most to gain and most to lose.
From Time ● Oct. 26, 2017
The mud was caused by heavy snowfall overnight that completely melted during the day, and it was the wettest and muddiest rasputitsa in living memory.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Critics say direct admission muddies an already-confusing process with countless invitations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
That story and all the thematic clones emerging in its wake center contradictory thought as heroic and easily imperiled because it muddies a convenient, consolidated prescription of how the world should work.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
One of the things that muddies the picture is that xylazine is rarely found on its own.
From Slate ● May 12, 2024
Thus, the fainting traveller may drink wholesome and refreshing draughts from the bounteous, overflowing spring; but should he rush heedlessly into it, he muddies the source, and the waters are those of bitterness.
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
U.S. stocks fell after surprisingly strong jobs data muddied the outlook for Federal Reserve policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The effects of the climate cycle on wildfires are muddied by countless other weather and ecological factors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The author now alleges that Euracare has "stalled and muddied and obfuscated" over the inquest and has requested Nigeria's Federal High Court block the inquiry.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
This is where it starts to get muddied.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
In one Sam had found some water left, stale, muddied by the orcs, but still sufficient for their desperate case.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The quiet period runs through the day after the meeting ends—in this case, at the end of Thursday—to keep individual officials from muddying the committee’s message immediately after a decision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI "hallucinations" muddying the legal waters.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
It allows both parties to get the best price they believe they can afford or believe is fair without muddying the waters with personal obligations and emotional leverage.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 19, 2026
“If content that’s synthetic isn’t being labeled and is confusing or muddying the waters in terms of what’s actually happening on the ground, that’s a problem,” Brown said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
They rushed over the path to the bank of the river and skidded down the last yards of incline, muddying their shoes.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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