muddy
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After my grandfather was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2009, I have watched the little path that leads to his tombstone go from a muddy dirt trail to neatly paved with bricks.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
And even as I try to dress it up here with some kind of detached, anthropological pseudo-intellectual claptrap, I’m still jumping straight into the muddy pigpile that’s been going on for weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The opening setting of the “Sleepers, awake!” text starts out muddy, as though the singers are still half asleep and not quite on their parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Reports of civilian casualties from U.S. operations also muddy the death tolls, especially in Somalia and Yemen.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
Lugging packs weighing more than fifty pounds, the young men slogged across muddy rice fields and cut through dense forests.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing muddy
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