muddy
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Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"There was a great pressure to restore the area. I think people worried it would stay a muddy mess but soon vegetation started to appear and it became established as a salt marsh," Hester added.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
These agreements muddy the distinction between a company’s sound growth trajectory and artificial financial engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Reports of civilian casualties from U.S. operations also muddy the death tolls, especially in Somalia and Yemen.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
It was Saturday, wash day, Farmer said, but it was obvious that nothing was going to come out of the muddy water Maytag clean.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing muddy
Can You Dig It? Words for Dirt and Soil
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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