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[muhd] / mʌd /


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For Leon Berkers, whose restaurant boat has been stuck in the mud for more than a month, adaptation has so far meant improvising fixes to keep "pots and pans from flying around."

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

For this to be a visceral experience rather than an intellectual exercise, the cast had to be willing not only to throw mud at each other, but to get deep into it themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Some polygonal formations previously examined by Curiosity clearly began as cracks in drying mud.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

And if the dredged mud isn't contained properly, it spills into nearby waters.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Just outside the main gate, a man—filthy with mud, wearing tattered clothing —walks up to him, hand outstretched.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“Getting washed away, built over, snowed in, mudded, overgrown.”

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

Then an L.A. pitcher approached his front office with an observation: The balls that the Astros were using were mudded up differently.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2021

In 2017 MLB did not offer much guidance on how a baseball was supposed to be mudded up, so it was difficult to punish a team for it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2021

This time, the Dodgers thought that the Astros had balls mudded up more heavily for their pitchers, and that the batboy would deliver those to the ump during innings when the Dodgers were batting.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2021

Old Tallow’s cabin was small, neat, thickly mudded between logs.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

He explained he would go out at night and change into black clothing to go "mudding" - where his "self-loathing" would cause him to cover himself in mud.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2023

They also take part in activities like searching a nearby lake for crappie fish with their bare hands or going mudding with monster trucks.

From Seattle Times Jul. 2, 2023

“A lot of people will just be mudding it in for the trade aid rather than for the market,” said Chad Hart, Iowa State University Extension markets economist.

From The Guardian May 30, 2019

TimMorgan @ @ @ No. Ms Konigsburg is critisizing the Hobbit and Jackson is mudding the waters for all those who have not read all of Tolkien's work,as I have.

From Time Jan. 5, 2013

He had a wife, Nancy, and three children, and his own house, which he had built with his own hands, a small tight adobe that required mudding every two or three autumns.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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