murky
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At 0-2 in the conference, the Wolverines are bumping around in the murky depths with Rutgers, which is like one of those fish with a lightbulb flaring over its head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos trudged through murky floodwaters in Bangkok's east -- knee-deep in some areas of a grocery store parking lot -- floating their belongings in plastic tubs alongside them, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
For now, the path forward looks as murky as ever.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Still, though it wakes up when we get to the storming of the Bastille, economically but effectively rendered, and, later the Reign of Terror, in between it can turn into a murky, mopey slog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The air out here was only slightly less murky than it had been in the auditorium, and it made Emma feel almost as strange.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The case for buying the shares today is murkier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
She recorded the new album with the same team — the hit-making writer-producers Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin — but here they go for a murkier, more percussive sound to match Grande’s dark mood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Yet once companies have captured the low-hanging fruit, the road forward may get murkier.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Things can get even murkier when SPV layering is involved.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
He had always understood the world to be only part engineering; he’d always understood there to be another, murkier sphere.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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But it’s a joke with depth, pointing to who Vahid really is, and who he isn’t, at just the time when that seems murkiest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The first, “From Dystopia to Our Declaration” by Nijawwon Matthews, is the murkiest.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
HKU1 has the murkiest evolutionary history, but its genetic sequence clusters close to the murine hepatitis virus, suggesting it has a rodent origin.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
So if there's anyone who can shine a light on this murkiest of stories, surely it's the leader of Belarus.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2023
I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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