muck

Here’s another running bit that would be so easy to muck up or exploit.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

But as Cara Giaimo writes for Slate, algae enthusiasts are finding tremendous joy in all the muck.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Osama bin Laden was leading al Qaeda, the liar loans that soon prompted the Great Recession were being issued, and our capital was awash in muck and corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

"We need the tractor to be scraping up the muck, to feed the animals, for hedge-cutting and we've also started putting the fertilizer out," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

Her grandmother snored in the swing bed on the other side of the room, taking in each breath as though it was filtered through a handful of muck.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Whether one mucks in for the full ride or just appreciates the concept, duration is part of the art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

Their clandestine love brings some bucolic light and energy to a movie that often mucks about in Mikolasek’s dim, gray clinic.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

Even though tennis industry officials and country club muckety mucks wrote dress codes that outlawed shorts, many women refused to adhere to the rules and continued showing up to play wearing them.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2018

In discussing pasturage it will be convenient to recognize three types of lands, namely, piney woods, prairie, and mucks, realizing, of course, that this is a very rough classification.

From Florida: An Ideal Cattle State by Florida State Live Stock Association

He said he believed that Shakespeare purists would love the adaption, adding that "we haven't mucked around" with the original text, but had added "all these different flavours and textures".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

These shows are much more vital when the cast stops fighting or toiling in the same drama they’ve been mucked in for years.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

That’s the way nature designed it and how it worked for thousands of years until humans mucked it up — mostly as we overpopulated California after World War II.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

The dark meat wasn’t mucked with much, just the taste of fatty meat with salt, so you get a clean, succulent bite of the best part of the turkey.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

Other times he ran messages, stood at guard, mucked out stables, fletched arrows, assisted Maester Aemon with his birds or Bowen Marsh with his counts and inventories.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The wild card in the movie, and one whose fierce devotion to mucking things up isn’t well explained, is Barry Keoghan as a motorbike-riding blond agent of chaos, Ormon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

And that means finding a problem, guessing how it can be answered or solved, and then mucking around.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

Last year, the college CEO even stepped in to invigilate an exam: "It's everyone mucking in."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024

The city connected the group with damaged homes that were in need of mucking out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

“There’s a system, you know. Just give them here, you’re mucking everything up!”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs