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Recent Examples of mud
In photo after photo, video after video, North Shore residents are painted in mud, scraping it off driveways, sweeping it out of kitchens and heaving it into trucks along with their household debris.
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Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Cobbles, mud and suffering await.
—Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Deputies located Adam Steven High and Candice Marie Daniel, both covered in mud.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
All the mud and dust came out in the washing machine.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2026
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Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Cobbles, mud and suffering await.
—Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Deputies located Adam Steven High and Candice Marie Daniel, both covered in mud.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
All the mud and dust came out in the washing machine.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mud
Noun
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Crumbled sidewalks were replaced by planks that covered the sludge that concealed the ancient wood fretwork that buried the bones of the metropolis and its people.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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The second is a 100-day sludge line that will poison the reserves oil-hungry nations are racing to drain.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This was scooping muck from the reaches of his lungs.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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Cormorants that tried to clean each other with their beaks died after ingesting the viscous muck.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Weedy Driveways Concrete and gravel can become an eyesore once weeds grow through the cracks and take over.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2026
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Prevent this by replacing the wood mulch near your home with gravel or stone.—
Terri Daxon,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Traffic was heavy Saturday as concertgoers made their way to A1A, where the festival is set up on the sand at the south end of the beach.—
Joan Murray,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Some began mining sand for the construction industry, to the frustration of the Great Green Wall department, which sees it as destructive to the environment.—
Julie Bourdin,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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