muck

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

A woman, in a rhinestone shirt, told me that she wanted to convene her fellow cyclists to whizz by the gulleys and alleyways around Tucson, searching for clues in the muck.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Even “when I’m in the mud and I have filled up my muck boots with mud and water, at no point have I ever thought, ‘Man I miss the office,’” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch,” the editors continued.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

“You’re needed elsewhere. I’m afraid Brother Dansabe’s gout has gotten him again, so in his stead you’re going to supervise the apprentices while they muck out the stable this morning.”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

The banter mucks around as happily in the psychological mud as it does in the corporate slime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 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

That makes teams more inclined to take penalties, which further mucks up games.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 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 Association, Florida State Live Stock

As she tells it, she was depicting a fantasy, and people didn’t need their fantasies mucked up by seeing the whole truth.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

I think he royally mucked up this whole process, starting with his ill-considered promise back in March 2021 to appoint a Black woman to replace Feinstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Matty Beniers and Jaden Schwartz mucked the puck out of a cluster of bodies along the boards and Beniers tapped it to Dunn, who extended his league-best, personal-best and franchise-best point streak to 12 games.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 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

He also examined the history of those peculiar twists and turns on the city perimeter, mucking through L.A.’s long-simmering stew of real estate grabs, water politics and annexation schemes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

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

There was no one else in here that he could see, and he noted that the broad shovels and pitchforks typically used for mucking were still propped against a wall to his right, untouched.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray