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
The improvements will include a new boardwalk across muddy parts of the park, litter-picking and the creation of shallow wetland habitats.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He theorized that was because the water was turbid and muddy due to big surf, which may make it harder for a shark to differentiate humans from prey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
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
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
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
I tore my jeans on barbed wire and got muddier still.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
“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
It’s a simple story, but “Scarlet,” an anime feature from Japan, both complicates and muddies the quest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
"Misuse of the terminology in the media muddies the waters," said Faris.
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
It just muddies my heels, and then my heels muddy my skirts.
From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett
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
This muddied the waters for the company’s coming IPO that aims to raise tens of billions of dollars to fund his multiplanetary goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
This is where it starts to get muddied.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
I think about Babs and her muddied white nightgown.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
But recent regulatory changes are muddying this bullish narrative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
The storm didn’t help the dirt path much, muddying it up within minutes as the rain came down harder.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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