muddle

The movie is therefore a muddle, by turns prideful and despondent, agonized and rousing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

So Roberts and the Dodgers are left to muddle on with Smith regardless of how much he struggles offensively.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

It’s all a muddle, but I somehow feel that if I went back to the root of our troubles, my actions would be at the heart of it.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Instead, it simply muddles the everyman point of the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

The researchers knew at this point that they had a subjective way to induce presence hallucinations, thanks to the robotic task that muddles up the user's senses.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

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

It has been a muddled start with suggestions Newcastle have lacked leadership and experience, with England defender Kieran Trippier, 36, also departing this summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hutchison previously said the issue muddled talks over a potential sale of stakes in certain port assets.

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

They feed the extra information into the already overcrowded equation they are building in their heads, and they get even more muddled.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Most writers of detective stories trick us by withholding or muddling the one clue that explains everything; Chesterton is so fun that you won’t even care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

You can also try muddling in fresh basil or citrus peel to amp up the mocktail’s bitterness.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 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

Just two weeks before a pivotal meeting, the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy has been just muddling along as of late.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025

Instead of muddling through and making the best of things, we pull the blankets over our heads and hope that whatever is troubling us will simply go away and leave us alone.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood