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Recent Examples of guckThe water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck.—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022 Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.—Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019 Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
These tiny flies breed in damp sand, mud and wet organic matter washed ashore, making areas just above the high tide line or near marsh edges hotspots for their presence.
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Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images ABILENE, Texas — Sam Altman stood on a patch of hot Texas dirt, the kind that turns to dust storms on dry days and mud slicks after a sudden rain.
Small things, like individual eyelashes or grains of sand, often get flushed out on their own through a combination of tearing up and blinking, per Mount Sinai.
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Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
The neutral palette featured colors such as quartz sand beige, slate green, night blue and silver pearl.
And at least one section became known for the bubbles produced by toxic sludge on its floor.
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Michael Loria,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
The Little Calumet, just blocks from where Steagall used to live, had shores like quicksand from all the toxic sludge and the Grand Calumet River was one of the most polluted bodies of water emptying into Lake Michigan.
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