muddy the waters

Example Sentences

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Experts say Beijing is seeking to bring non-Chinese audiences into the dispute about Covid-19 origins to further muddy the waters.

From BBC

What the Republican speakers did with those attacks is “muddy the waters in ways that give people excuses not to get vaccinated,” the governor told the AP.

From Seattle Times

What the Republican speakers did with those attacks is “muddy the waters in ways that give people excuses not to get vaccinated,” the governor said.

From Washington Times

But those messages “work to muddy the waters to the same end — which is to stop action on climate change,” he said.

From New York Times

Amazon’s algorithmic promotion of books that muddy the waters of the climate crisis is another strand in that web of contradictions.

From Los Angeles Times