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sludge

[sluhj] / slʌdʒ /


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I feel as though I’ve spent much of my summer taking shots at “Obsession” gussying up its thin characterizations to fool people into thinking it’s anything more than your standard horror sludge.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Looking out over the green sludge covered in cleaning equipment, speaking over the hum of the generators and the vacuums and the pumps, Hier smiled.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2026

That’s when a tank gets so low that drawing hits dregs — an all-but-unusable mix of oil sludge and debris — before a physical bottom is reached.

From MarketWatch Jun. 6, 2026

They frequently appear in wastewater and can end up in biosolid fertilizer, also called sewage sludge, which is produced during wastewater treatment.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2026

Then the sludge was scooped up and poured through a sieve into a neighboring pit.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

"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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