mud
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Since July, hundreds of experts and soldiers have been working to unearth layers of remains at the park, aided by bulldozers, excavators and water pumps but often sifting through the mud by hand.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
“If you’re trying to compact a mud puddle, it wouldn’t really compact, right?” he said at a trailhead off of Agoura Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Most Baiga houses have low mud walls, rough timber and bamboo, and tiled or thatched roofs patched with plastic against the rain.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Some children left covered in mud, since no one made them wash their hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Just outside the main gate, a man—filthy with mud, wearing tattered clothing —walks up to him, hand outstretched.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“Getting washed away, built over, snowed in, mudded, overgrown.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Then an L.A. pitcher approached his front office with an observation: The balls that the Astros were using were mudded up differently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
In 2017 MLB did not offer much guidance on how a baseball was supposed to be mudded up, so it was difficult to punish a team for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
This time, the Dodgers thought that the Astros had balls mudded up more heavily for their pitchers, and that the batboy would deliver those to the ump during innings when the Dodgers were batting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
Old Tallow’s cabin was small, neat, thickly mudded between logs.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
He explained he would go out at night and change into black clothing to go "mudding" - where his "self-loathing" would cause him to cover himself in mud.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
They also take part in activities like searching a nearby lake for crappie fish with their bare hands or going mudding with monster trucks.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
It hits him: “I lost the effort, the hustle, the mudding, and the megaphone. I lost the fun.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020
TimMorgan @ @ @ No. Ms Konigsburg is critisizing the Hobbit and Jackson is mudding the waters for all those who have not read all of Tolkien's work,as I have.
From Time ● Jan. 5, 2013
He had a wife, Nancy, and three children, and his own house, which he had built with his own hands, a small tight adobe that required mudding every two or three autumns.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
