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Recent Examples of mud
But its connection to the city is forever preserved — the city's name remains visible, upside down, just above the mud and taconite on the lake bottom.
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Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
This one should be a no-brainer, but if your shoes have a mud on them, don't put them in your closet until they've been cleaned.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Dousing enemies covered in mud with water shatters their defenses faster than basic attacks, while fire melts ice enemies without issue.
—PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Any other creation theory – hollow Earth, flat Earth, mud collection, hanging cord, corpse reuse, dreamtime, biosphere as gemstone in the ring of a galactic giant, please insert alternative here.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
This one should be a no-brainer, but if your shoes have a mud on them, don't put them in your closet until they've been cleaned.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Dousing enemies covered in mud with water shatters their defenses faster than basic attacks, while fire melts ice enemies without issue.
—PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Any other creation theory – hollow Earth, flat Earth, mud collection, hanging cord, corpse reuse, dreamtime, biosphere as gemstone in the ring of a galactic giant, please insert alternative here.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mud
Noun
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The swimming pool was covered with leaves and sludge and algae.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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This movie oozes style — and actual undead sludge, occasionally — along with Cody’s signature sense of humor.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But the mandates also help colleges shovel heaps of bureaucratic muck—validating data for accreditation, carrying out enrollment, flagging troubled students, aggregating metrics of all kinds.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Since the April 2022 closing of the $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, investors have been dragged into the muck.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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On Tuesday morning, the parking lot and the gravel road near the Oglala Commodity Warehouse in Pine Ridge was plumb-full of pick-up trucks and cars.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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While no one is predicting Mad Max scenarios or dry taps, shortages could kill gardens and trees, turn lawns to gravel, worsen housing shortages, burden local government budgets, increase taxes and water rates and throw a wrench into local economies.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Flocks of snow buntings skitter across the sand, rising in confetti clouds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Use sand, snow, or leaves typical of the season.—
Carolyn Forché,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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