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Havoc takes place in a grimy American metropolis that’s part Chicago, part Detroit, and part Gotham City.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
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Black Samson is a straight-up boom-bap piece of glory exuding a grimy, cinematic, unapologetic vibe encapsulating a specific hip-hop vibe.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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The law specifically spells out heating problems, pest infestations and filthy conditions as among the issues that could require a court’s intervention.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
30 May 2025
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Detectives have criminally charged the owner of nearly 50 Belgian Malinois dogs that were found trapped together in a cramped, filthy Queens apartment, police said Wednesday.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2025
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Several areas had debris and unclean surfaces, including the three-compartment sink and areas behind the ice machine and under the prep sink.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2025
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Full Story Benefits of boiling water with dirty fuels outweigh the risk in areas with unclean resources: Study Boiling unclean water in many regions of the world results in air pollution from burning dirty fuels, but the benefits of doing so usually outweigh the risks, a new study has found.—
Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
13 May 2025
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Now, the world is essentially the puppet of the A.I. big bad known as The Entity, which has gotten its grubby digital claws into the global psyche as well as most of the world’s nuclear arsenals.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2025
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But maybe that’s the ultimate victory: By the end, Cruise and McQuarrie manage to wrestle back their magnum opus from the grubby little cyberpaws of the Lord of Lies.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 May 2025
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This anti-establishment mindset translates to denim with dirty shades of indigo, impure neutrals and green casts, accented with pops of fiery red and pale yellow.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
30 May 2025
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According to some Buddhist scriptures, during Maya’s pregnancy the future Buddha never actually touched her womb, which was considered impure in early Indian Buddhism.—
Megan Bryson,
The Conversation,
6 May 2025
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There was this beautiful, really fun, cheap, grungy rehearsal studio in Culver City called Exposition Studios.—
Michelle Woo,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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Rothman shepherded Teitelbaum’s rebrand, helping to realign her sound in a way that more authentically reflected her taste — retaining the dark tint of her Baum output, but grounding it in grungy live instruments instead of synths.—
Olivia Horn,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The 3-week-old baby was the third to die from the cold in Gaza's tent camps in recent days, doctors said, deaths that underscore the squalid conditions, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into often ramshackle tents after fleeing Israeli offensives.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Dec. 2024
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Migrants in Libya are routinely arbitrarily detained and placed in squalid detention centers where they are subjected to extortion, abuse, rape and killings.—
Renata Brito,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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The effort is big business with organized, managed, paid people doing the dirty work.—
Carolyn Rosenblatt,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Washing Machine Cleaner Your clothes aren’t the only things that get dirty in the laundry room.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
13 June 2025
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“Gunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunky. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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