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His answers were frequently long-winded, muddled and incoherent.

The message of “The Long Walk” is muddled, at once hopeful and despairing.

Many doctors lamented how once-clear vaccine guidelines have become muddled and confusing.

The lemons aren’t just used for juicing; their peels are also muddled with sugar, allowing the essential oils of the lemon to come out and produce a more fragrant flavor.

In portraying these intractable figures in equivalent moral terms, Galsworthy reveals, if not his privileged background, then his muddled thinking on economic justice.