muddy
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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
Rescuers cheered as one man was pulled through a muddy opening, a video released by the energy ministry showed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 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
The rock-ice avalanche crashed thousands of feet into the valley below, where it was pulverized into a muddy debris-laden flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
He hops down from the hospital bed, his muddy hiking boots hitting the glossy floor below.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
A second, the helpers, is a muddier designation.
From Salon ● May 9, 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
That meant great sight lines for more people in the arena, but muddier sound as a result.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
The muddy trail turned into a wider, even muddier trail, with a scattering of trading stores on either side.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
There's another reason that muddies the waters and helps explain why cutting carbon became the prime focus – it was investable.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Ms. Nović’s habit of jumping from her life story at one age to another and then back again muddies the timeline as well as the reader’s understanding of what happened when.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
That story and all the thematic clones emerging in its wake center contradictory thought as heroic and easily imperiled because it muddies a convenient, consolidated prescription of how the world should work.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
She has "cluttered up" her mind with a wrong idea, an idea which dirties, muddies, soils her mind far worse than dust soils her house.
From Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James
Chairman Kevin Warsh’s decision to ditch forward guidance and take more of his cues from markets has muddied the waters for investors when it comes to monetary policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
But the Iran War and its impact on inflation has muddied that picture, leaving plenty of investors braced for potential rate hikes under incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
The effect was galvanizing: his muddied half-chewed tail stirred and he raised his shoulders, then his forelegs, with a convulsive effort, like an old work horse getting up after a fall.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
Some researchers caution that victimization surveys don’t line up with the fall in reported crime, possibly muddying the picture for some offenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 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
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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