muddle

The Daily Telegraph's Chris Bennion declared, external that Strictly's "new 'throuple' is an utter disaster", adding: "It's a mess, a muddle, a confusing pudding".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

I meet each new crisis with little more than a desire to muddle through, to patch it up well enough that I can forget about it.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The soundtrack to her life is becoming a muddle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Daco recently raised the chance of a U.S. recession to 40% because of these worries, but he still thinks the economy is sturdy enough to muddle along.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

She painted so quickly that I thought it would all be a muddle on the paper, until I looked and saw the form clearly taking shape—a lean, graceful form.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is a complicated measure that involves jail financing and seeks to clean up some bureaucratic muddles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

That may be a greenlight for investors to take a closer look at well-positioned companies, even if China’s economy merely muddles along.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Whether that enhances public health, erodes it or simply muddles the conversation further remains an open question.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

“He just muddles through and uses Google Images and sort of figures it out that way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Faerie fruit, which muddles the mind, which makes humans crave it enough to starve themselves for another taste, which makes us pliant and suggestible and ridiculous.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Dementia had muddled the dates in his mind.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

But the play’s aims and ideas are so muddled that little of what follows these developments makes any sense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Rising competition and a cautious consumer backdrop have suppressed sales, analysts say, and frequent management changes have muddled the strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026

But because decomposing food is a source of ammonia, the source of any emissions remains muddled, regulators said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Then he got muddled; the twins shook their heads and pointed at each other and the crowd laughed.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Playwright Kat Chandler’s interpretation leaves open the question of whether our impressions of its witch are unwarranted or dead right, further muddling our judgment with the introduction of Carrie-Anne Moss’ university professor, Katherine Hargrove.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

The BBC understands Lord Mandelson doesn't believe there were any security concerns, wasn't asked to do anything to deal with any and there has been a muddling of key details relating to these claims.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Most people have these spaces, she notes, but “the usual experience is of muddling along, spending these bits of time without much direction”—puttering around the house, mindlessly scrolling on our phones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

That’s partly because the plot can veer into far-fetched territory, but also because we see the story unfold from two different viewpoints, muddling the truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Even after finding Archer, she’d been so alone in this, muddling through the words, struggling to control the Vision, with no one to help her understand what was happening, what it meant.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee