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
She explained in the adjoining caption how she had "slipped on a muddy patch on the steep path", while walking back with her family following her birthday celebrations.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
Videos shared by Nepal police and others on social media showed torrents of muddy water crashing through mountain valleys in the Himalayan district bordering China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even the brief carriage ride between Ford’s and the White House over unpaved, muddy streets, gouged with ruts and tracks from hundreds of carriage wheels, would be too much for Lincoln to endure.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
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
Yet as the smoke cleared and the fallout from the launch became apparent, the implications—for Starship itself and SpaceX’s southern Texas Starbase launch site—grew muddier.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
"Smudged, I should say. Rather than muddier, it's more smudged and smeared around, the sound on that record."
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Everything’s getting muddier and it’s making us slow down.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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 more rugged vehicles pulled on in to the muddiest sections, and the people inside would scatter to the bulldozers and backhoes that had been left outside overnight.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
The first pull on Haaland muddies the waters.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
And so it muddies the waters in terms of how people might respond to it.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025
Newspaper stock muddies it up when it is too fine.
From From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 by H. C. Forster
Meta is moving to upend its fact-checking operations just as generative artificial intelligence has muddied the waters of the digital world.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Even if he fails in court, Cohen’s turnabout has muddied the case in the court of public opinion, letting Trump claim vindication.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 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
In May, India's civil aviation minister muddied the waters when he told reporters the investigation into the crash was into its "last stage", and that the final report would "mostly... come after a month".
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Down in the stands, the allegiances were more muddied.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
Yet the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, personal consumption expenditures, rose 0.4% in December from the prior month and 3% from a year earlier, muddying the case for rate cuts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 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
This could "balance out this superficial disadvantage" by muddying the threat level, says Masterson.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
How can you avoid muddying it up when you put it into words?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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