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sludge

[sluhj] / slʌdʒ /


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It is just another Tuesday for Jones, a Chicago-area resident who calls himself The Profiler and spends hours daily wading through this kind of online sludge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The kind of groove your tires make driving to Big Bear in December without chains: an icy trench filled with frustration, exhaustion and everyday sludge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"They are continuing to work despite difficulties. There is a heavy volume of mud and debris and sludge."

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

I imagined I could see the trolls in The Eastern Woods, slurping sludge and maybe eating apples.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

"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

The targeted radioactive waste included plutonium-contaminated filters, graphite molds, sludges containing solvents and oxidized uranium generated during nuclear weapons production work at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2022

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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