muddied
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As a minor complaint, the book’s discussion of what makes something intelligent is scant and muddied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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