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verb

ˈməl How to pronounce mull (audio)
Definition of mullnext
as in to grind
to reduce to fine particles the dentist was in the habit of mulling the mercury amalgam in the palm of his hand

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noun

as in duff

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Recent Examples of mull
Verb
After mulling over their wishlist, Caywood and her husband finally started solidifying their plans. — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026 Redditors have been mulling over whether Saint Vice, a BookTok favorite with 680,000 monthly listeners, is AI. — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026 Republicans are mulling a sizable $350 billion plus-up for Hegseth on par with the White House’s budget request that the GOP could pass on its own, through the reconciliation process that allows majority rule over potential objections from Democrats. — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 20 June 2026 Indeed, OpenAI is mulling slashing prices, the Journal reported, while some customers are only using highly capable models for complex tasks, relying on cheaper open-source ones for most functions, saving up to 95% on outlays. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for mull
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mull
  1. grind
  2. duff
  3. pound
  4. sediment
  5. crush
  6. silt
  7. beat
  8. marl
Verb
  • The bones were ground up into bone ash, used as fertilizer, and burned to make bone black, used both as a dye and a filter for cane sugar juice.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 July 2026
  • The performers grind and moan as rain pours from above and a wind machine roars.
    — Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of grind
Noun
  • Hilary Duff is a duff-initely sad about her relationship with sister Haylie.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Colorado vet wristed a rebound past goaltender Kevin Lankinen from the left face-off circle with 32 seconds left in the first period — a score that got the Avs off their collective duffs and onto the scoreboard.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2025
Definition of duff
Verb
  • Ukraine continues to pound Putin's energy assets, taking some Russian oil refining offline.
    — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 23 July 2026
  • But the Thai-style of salad—a combination of sour (som) and pounded ingredients (tam)—can be applied to a wide array of produce.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 July 2026
Definition of pound
Noun
  • These might all show up in future sediments, many millions of years from now.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • Most of these contaminants wash off the road and end up in streams and sediments.
    — Nathaniel Warner, The Conversation, 24 July 2026
Definition of sediment
Verb
  • Software stocks have been crushed on the notion that AI could disrupt.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 24 July 2026
  • Firstenberg orchestrates the delicate character moments and the bone-crushing action with real flair.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Definition of crush
Noun
  • The water drew back from the house, left a thick, stinking silt across the floor.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of silt
Verb
  • Never has a team appeared so beatable while so rarely being beaten.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • The Royals beat the Padres 6-1 to win the three-game series outright.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2026
Definition of beat
Noun
  • Freshman Ben Smith became the first NCAA outdoor champion for Oregon in the shot put since Dean Crouser (1982) with a marl of 69-0 1/2.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026
Definition of marl

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