muddies

present tense third-person singular of muddy
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Recent Examples of muddies But the latest inflation data, where both hiring slowed and prices rose, muddies the picture. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muddies
Verb
  • And so an urban tunnel not only blocks some satellites, but confuses the listeners as to which are direct or reflected signals.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One case that still baffles is the macabre story of Virginia McCullough, who killed her parents for their money – and then lived with their bodies for four years.
    KC Baker, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For all their evident overlap, the two marketplaces serve different crowds — even as the boundary between art and design blurs (Basic.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Alcohol blurs a person's judgment, reaction time and abilities.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wedged in the far southeastern corner of the bottom of the continent, between South Africa and Mozambique, Eswatini is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, a status that bewilders modernizers and beguiles traditionalists.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Relying on such sources is misleading and muddles the comparison with Chicago, which has better public transit than Philadelphia.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Muddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muddies. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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