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At one place, you might be able to walk in and out the door with a pet, no muss, no fuss.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

Now that the multiverse has been breached, Marvel’s in a position to easily weave basically all of its recent stories into the MCU no fuss no muss.

From The Verge ● May 19, 2022

As the world’s biggest fan of Peter Watkins’s twisted and superb “Edvard Munch,” I harbor a soft spot for filmmakers who muss up the perfectly coifed looks and reassuring habits of biographical films.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

The customary thing would be for him to play some uncustomary role in a hit HBO series, or get into a Marvel project or something where he’d have to muss up his hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021

She had grown chubbier, and she didn’t like the outdoors, maybe because it might muss her beehive hairdo.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

It cuts away when wind musses the hair of Xi Jinping, the Chinese president.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019

A low-key vibe pervades the shop—when a young boy musses a pile of garments, he gets nothing more than a beatific smile from the sales staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2019

Southern humidity has everybody sweating through their shirts, but no perspiration musses Adora’s Veronica Lake waves.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2018

She once read an online comment observing that she has a “short forehead,” and it’s true, though she so frequently musses her impressively thick, straight hair that it’s hard to notice.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016

Heidi looks at her cell phone and musses my hair, flicking it this way and that.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Baker: I can’t shake the image of Colorado defenseman Cale Makar escaping Tuesday’s home opener with nary a mussed hair beneath his helmet.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The uncharacteristically mussed hair and the pained, anxiety-ridden grimace were long gone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

We came in and the bed was mussed.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2022

He was a child actor who played a skiing country kid with mussed hair in the 2014 blockbuster “The Taking of Tiger Mountain.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

I’ve mussed my hair, dirtied up my face, hidden my purse, and I have a real armband on my coat instead of one that will only bear a glance.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

“It’s Reege mussing up wrestling manager Freddie Blassie’s hair and getting a chair tossed at him; shadowboxing with Razor Ruddock; weightlifting with Joe Piscopo; jousting with American Gladiators Lace and Gemini.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2020

He scratched it, mussing his hair even further.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020

Mr. Macdonald saw this up close two years ago when his pal Jimmy Fallon was criticized for playfully mussing then-candidate Mr. Trump’s hair on “The Tonight Show.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2018

What does concern me are those who are not comedians but are deemed knowledgable commentators, journalists, news people etc., who are basically doing the same thing - mussing with Trump's hair.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016

Gideon runs his hand through his dark hair, mussing it.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland