muddle

The muddle of Catholic teaching on war has been a long time in the making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

England entered the tournament with a settled-looking side, but now look a muddle with Matt Dawson calling for Fin Smith to replace George Ford at number 10.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

Another muddle concerns his expectations of economic gains from artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

For China’s economy to muddle along, Chu says, the U.S. economy needs to do well and keep buying Chinese goods, even if they are no longer coming via Vietnam or Malaysia.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

Two dozen coves and inlets, each with its pleasant muddle of sailboats and summer homes, ran the circumference of San Piedro, an endless series of pristine anchorages.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

That may be a greenlight for investors to take a closer look at well-positioned companies, even if China’s economy merely muddles along.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

“He just muddles through and uses Google Images and sort of figures it out that way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

And his recent strategy to rebuke “weirdness” further muddles his role as the “normal” ally of the GSA.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2024

Scientists have simulated conditions that allow hazy skies to form in water-rich exoplanets, a crucial step in determining how haziness muddles observations by ground and space telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023

Faerie fruit, which muddles the mind, which makes humans crave it enough to starve themselves for another taste, which makes us pliant and suggestible and ridiculous.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Albania's land rights issue stems from its communist past that banned individual land ownership, further muddled by customs that date back to the Ottoman era.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

If anything, it muddled our relationship, the communicative signals of the PetPhone confusing Clover and ultimately making me feel distanced from her.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026

Feldstein Soto’s messaging was at times muddled and lacked the flair of her challengers, political observers said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

New York’s Classic Stage Company mounts the unfinished drama that the Pulitzer winner worked on during the final decades of his life, in a muddled version ‘completed’ by playwright Kirk Lynn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

My head feels muddled, probably from exhaustion, hut the adrenaline keeps me running.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Sharing a chatbot creates security vulnerabilities and can flatten the user experience by muddling personalization features, OpenAI warns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

“If I were to do this at a craft level, I would suggest muddling fresh ginger, fresh lime juice and sugar,” he says.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

That’s partly because the plot can veer into far-fetched territory, but also because we see the story unfold from two different viewpoints, muddling the truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Just two weeks before a pivotal meeting, the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy has been just muddling along as of late.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025

Instead of muddling through and making the best of things, we pull the blankets over our heads and hope that whatever is troubling us will simply go away and leave us alone.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood