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Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The helicopter he was on, hired by Rasuwagadhi, was unable to land at the location of the project, which was a muddy wasteland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

She explained in the adjoining caption how she had "slipped on a muddy patch on the steep path", while walking back with her family following her birthday celebrations.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Aerial footage showed multi-storey buildings partially submerged by the muddy floodwaters, and a valley filled with dust and smoke.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

It wasn’t gray exactly, or beige exactly, or green exactly, but some muddy combination of the three.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 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

Yet as the smoke cleared and the fallout from the launch became apparent, the implications—for Starship itself and SpaceX’s southern Texas Starbase launch site—grew muddier.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023

Rather than muddier, it's more smudged and smeared around, the sound on that record.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022

I tore my jeans on barbed wire and got muddier still.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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 mud was caused by heavy snowfall overnight that completely melted during the day, and it was the wettest and muddiest rasputitsa in living memory.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

There's another reason that muddies the waters and helps explain why cutting carbon became the prime focus – it was investable.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

It’s a simple story, but “Scarlet,” an anime feature from Japan, both complicates and muddies the quest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

And so it muddies the waters in terms of how people might respond to it.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025

He did what they would not, as the thrall who pulls off our boots muddies his hands that we may keep ours clean.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

U.S. stocks fell after surprisingly strong jobs data muddied the outlook for Federal Reserve policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The effects of the climate cycle on wildfires are muddied by countless other weather and ecological factors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

In May, India's civil aviation minister muddied the waters when he told reporters the investigation into the crash was into its "last stage", and that the final report would "mostly... come after a month".

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

This is where it starts to get muddied.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

As Hare had imagined, Lion was furious when he was told that the water remaining in the hole had been stolen and muddied.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI "hallucinations" muddying the legal waters.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 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

This could "balance out this superficial disadvantage" by muddying the threat level, says Masterson.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

How can you avoid muddying it up when you put it into words?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner