mud
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Nepal’s army spokesman said Monday that army engineers had conducted a controlled explosion at the tunnel and excavators were being used to clear mud and debris at a depth of about 30 feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"They are continuing to work despite difficulties. There is a heavy volume of mud and debris and sludge."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Such was the likely impact that ice immediately pulverized into water, mixing with debris to create a tsunami of mud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Then it gathers shape and speed: water, mud, boulders, ice and rock surging down the valley.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Come down here and show us what you have mastered. I take it you’re not another scholar of the mud dauber.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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“Getting washed away, built over, snowed in, mudded, overgrown.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
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
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
Old Tallow’s cabin was small, neat, thickly mudded between logs.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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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
“A lot of people will just be mudding it in for the trade aid rather than for the market,” said Chad Hart, Iowa State University Extension markets economist.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2019
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
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