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Images shared by Nepali police showed floodwater surging through a river, sweeping away houses in its path, while AFP images depicted the top floor of a house sticking out from muddy soil.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The following year, the fest was moved to September, but Hurricane Ida forced promoters to cancel after heavy rain turned the Farm — the festival’s venue — into a muddy mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

At the entrance of a little hole in the muddy river bank she points to a patch of dark brown in the lighter coloured mud.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

You “absolutely need a mudroom,” in the Northeast, since people walk in with snow and rain on their boots and need a place to drop off “sporty, sweaty, muddy, rainy, snowy” stuff.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

My uniform was clean, at least; I’d managed to wash and mostly dry the muddy one, but my hair was still damp.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

The outlook for USC’s rushing attack may only get muddier from there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

In a statement issued through Cumbria Police, Mr and Mrs Cartmell said "Jay loved being outdoors" and "the muddier he could get the better".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024

Yet as the smoke cleared and the fallout from the launch became apparent, the implications—for Starship itself and SpaceX’s southern Texas Starbase launch site—grew muddier.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023

The muddy trail turned into a wider, even muddier trail, with a scattering of trading stores on either side.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

This is likely due to the high silt content of the riverbed; the Yellow River—the muddiest in the world—is named for the heavy loads of silt it carries.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 10, 2022

“It’s a high road and, as all the muddiest are, both unassailable pure and also solidly earthed.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

On the second lap, I tripped and fell in a woodsy area coating myself with the muddiest mud.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 11, 2019

Freedman's people are the ones with the muddiest shoes and wettest clothes, the people with the most to gain and most to lose.

From Time ● Oct. 26, 2017

He crawled along the gully in the direction that seemed the muddiest.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

There's another reason that muddies the waters and helps explain why cutting carbon became the prime focus – it was investable.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Ms. Nović’s habit of jumping from her life story at one age to another and then back again muddies the timeline as well as the reader’s understanding of what happened when.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

"Misuse of the terminology in the media muddies the waters."

From Salon ● May 20, 2024

"Because," Horace answered, "he contorts the Latin language and muddies his thought by Alexandrian débris."

From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson

In May, India's civil aviation minister muddied the waters when he told reporters the investigation into the crash was into its "last stage", and that the final report would "mostly... come after a month".

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the Iran War and its impact on inflation has muddied that picture, leaving plenty of investors braced for potential rate hikes under incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

This is where it starts to get muddied.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

Brent crude prices climbed 15% after some major Gulf producers curbed production, while the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new supreme leader muddied the outlook for a near-term resolution to the Middle East conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

The bottom is brown, like it’s been muddied.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI "hallucinations" muddying the legal waters.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

A wave of AI experts reacted with frustration, accusing the company of gatekeeping to harm potential competitors and muddying the ability of outside researchers to assess and use Fable to its full potential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

It allows both parties to get the best price they believe they can afford or believe is fair without muddying the waters with personal obligations and emotional leverage.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 19, 2026

Davis suffered an abdominal strain Tuesday and is scheduled to be reevaluated in a week, muddying up the trade waters some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

How can you avoid muddying it up when you put it into words?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner