mud
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Its name is inspired by the nursery rhyme Old Mother Goose, reflecting the idea of an ancient goose emerging from the mud of a fossil deposit.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Inside, mud bricks are baking at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The habitat will be created by installing low barriers made out of materials like sticks in the water near the shoreline, to help mud build up and encourage plants to grow.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
When Satya Nadella became Microsoft CEO in 2014, the software company was stuck in the mud.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
I screamed like a mountain lion and fell to the ground and rolled, throwing mud and dirt all over, but those pixies bit my nose, my cheeks, my ears, and all ten of my fingers.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“Getting washed away, built over, snowed in, mudded, overgrown.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
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
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
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
