muddy

The tracks were muddy and slippery, and the family had no way of transporting her.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Rescuers cheered as one man was pulled through a muddy opening, a video released by the energy ministry showed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The rock-ice avalanche crashed thousands of feet into the valley below, where it was pulverized into a muddy debris-laden flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

A run-down shed, a path with broken paving stones, a tiny square of muddy grass, trees along the edge.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

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

That meant great sight lines for more people in the arena, but muddier sound as a result.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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

Sometimes it was muddier than others, and when the river flooded, the flats disappeared under water.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

The more rugged vehicles pulled on in to the muddiest sections, and the people inside would scatter to the bulldozers and backhoes that had been left outside overnight.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

It’s a simple story, but “Scarlet,” an anime feature from Japan, both complicates and muddies the quest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 20, 2024

He did what they would not, as the thrall who pulls off our boots muddies his hands that we may keep ours clean.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

Even if he fails in court, Cohen’s turnabout has muddied the case in the court of public opinion, letting Trump claim vindication.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The effects of the climate cycle on wildfires are muddied by countless other weather and ecological factors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The author now alleges that Euracare has "stalled and muddied and obfuscated" over the inquest and has requested Nigeria's Federal High Court block the inquiry.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

This muddied the waters for the company’s coming IPO that aims to raise tens of billions of dollars to fund his multiplanetary goals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The effect was galvanizing: his muddied half-chewed tail stirred and he raised his shoulders, then his forelegs, with a convulsive effort, like an old work horse getting up after a fall.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

The group also claimed responsibility for attacks that never happened, further muddying the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 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

“If content that’s synthetic isn’t being labeled and is confusing or muddying the waters in terms of what’s actually happening on the ground, that’s a problem,” Brown said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

The storm didn’t help the dirt path much, muddying it up within minutes as the rain came down harder.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley