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Recent Examples of mud
Excessive rainfall over the warning area will cause mud slides near steep terrain.
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
One example came in 1981's Stripes, where Candy's character mud wrestles with several women.
—Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The man was covered in mud and appeared to be under the influence of methamphetamines, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
As seen in many forms of motorsports, drivers often go over grass and mud to add more weight since the dirt sticks to the hot tires.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
One example came in 1981's Stripes, where Candy's character mud wrestles with several women.
—Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The man was covered in mud and appeared to be under the influence of methamphetamines, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
As seen in many forms of motorsports, drivers often go over grass and mud to add more weight since the dirt sticks to the hot tires.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mud
Noun
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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.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
15 Sep. 2025
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Desalinating that water, however, would produce tons of brine, or super-salty sludge, as waste.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The study recommends strategic test areas of algicide and treatments to sequester nutrients after large-scale mechanical clearing of the muck.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Passing through clear plastic tubes, muck was sliced into disks like hockey pucks.—
Rodrique Ngowi,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But the version at the Saenger was a different song entirely—quiet and haunting, delivered in a rocks-and-gravel voice to a dark hall that had gone dead silent.—
Tom Piazza
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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Then in the 1960s, Lake Burtnieks’s northern shore was used as a gravel quarry.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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California beaches were closed; skate parks were filled with sand.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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In the heigh of summer, the beaches are often completely blanketed with umbrellas and beach towels, leaving little room to actually see the sand.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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