muddy
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Videos shared by Nepal police and others on social media showed torrents of muddy water crashing through mountain valleys in the Himalayan district bordering China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 2018, one episode was taped in a jeep while driving on a muddy road in Kenya and shaking back and forth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
You “absolutely need a mudroom,” in the Northeast, since people walk in with snow and rain on their boots and need a place to drop off “sporty, sweaty, muddy, rainy, snowy” stuff.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sixty-two miles east of Tuskegee is the rural outpost of Eufaula, where pickup trucks haul fishing boats to the muddy banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
He hops down from the hospital bed, his muddy hiking boots hitting the glossy floor below.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
A second, the helpers, is a muddier designation.
From Salon ● May 9, 2025
In a statement issued through Cumbria Police, Mr and Mrs Cartmell said "Jay loved being outdoors" and "the muddier he could get the better".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
That meant great sight lines for more people in the arena, but muddier sound as a result.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Everything’s getting muddier and it’s making us slow down.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
This is likely due to the high silt content of the riverbed; the Yellow River—the muddiest in the world—is named for the heavy loads of silt it carries.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 10, 2022
“It’s a high road and, as all the muddiest are, both unassailable pure and also solidly earthed.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
On the second lap, I tripped and fell in a woodsy area coating myself with the muddiest mud.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 11, 2019
Freedman's people are the ones with the muddiest shoes and wettest clothes, the people with the most to gain and most to lose.
From Time ● Oct. 26, 2017
The more rugged vehicles pulled on in to the muddiest sections, and the people inside would scatter to the bulldozers and backhoes that had been left outside overnight.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
This all in turn muddies the water for getting accurate state and federal case counts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
The first pull on Haaland muddies the waters.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
And so it muddies the waters in terms of how people might respond to it.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025
It is raining mightily; strong, straight, earnest rain, that harshly lashes the meek earth, that sends angry runlets down the gravel walks, that muddies the gold goblets of the closed crocuses.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
Some of the Son of God’s adherents might have muddied the waters, Waldrop seems to say, but the guy had the right idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The author now alleges that Euracare has "stalled and muddied and obfuscated" over the inquest and has requested Nigeria's Federal High Court block the inquiry.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
But the Iran War and its impact on inflation has muddied that picture, leaving plenty of investors braced for potential rate hikes under incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
This is where it starts to get muddied.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
But his worrying muddied his concentration to the point where he couldn’t even remember the melody.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI "hallucinations" muddying the legal waters.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Musk's interest in buying the company risks muddying the waters when it comes to this trial, says Columbia Law School professor Dorothy Lund.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Some researchers caution that victimization surveys don’t line up with the fall in reported crime, possibly muddying the picture for some offenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
It allows both parties to get the best price they believe they can afford or believe is fair without muddying the waters with personal obligations and emotional leverage.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 19, 2026
The storm didn’t help the dirt path much, muddying it up within minutes as the rain came down harder.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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