sludge
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It is just another Tuesday for Jones, a Chicago-area resident who calls himself The Profiler and spends hours daily wading through this kind of online sludge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The kind of groove your tires make driving to Big Bear in December without chains: an icy trench filled with frustration, exhaustion and everyday sludge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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
They mix together into a confusing sludge of familiar and strange faces, something that sounds like Tess's laughter, something else that sounds like June's voice.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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"When sewage sludges are spread across the fields, those toxic compounds could be released into the air," Katz said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2026
These little guys live in basically every natural setting in the world, including deserts, soils, and, in particularly unlucky cases, the sludges of the human body.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
While working in a lab in the Netherlands in the late 2000s, Strous noticed that a type of methane-feeding bacteria often found in lake sediments and wastewater sludges had a strange way of life.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2023
For players and officials both as the NHL sludges through this pandemic with a human toll being taken nightly at arenas, including one the Kraken calls home.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
With regard to the manurial value of the resulting sludges, much difference of opinion has existed.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
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