muddled
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Think whipped ricotta and blue cheese on crisp oil-toasted sourdough, topped with muddled olives, garlic, lemon and orange zest, fresh basil, olive brine, and a little red pepper flake.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
If anything, it muddled our relationship, the communicative signals of the PetPhone confusing Clover and ultimately making me feel distanced from her.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
The mayoral hopeful didn’t articulate a platform that radically departed from Bass’, and voter antipathy to her muddled messaging showed: she ended the night in third place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
New York’s Classic Stage Company mounts the unfinished drama that the Pulitzer winner worked on during the final decades of his life, in a muddled version ‘completed’ by playwright Kirk Lynn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
To its critics, the World Health Organization was an entangled, muddled bureaucracy that had two mottoes: “Slow down” and “It’s not our fault.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
