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Noun
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As a writer, Conrad—who sold his first screenplay at the age of 19—has always been interested in messiness.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Humor, messiness, and unoptimized storytelling are once again what cut through.—
Katie Salcius,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Often this has been from a position of two goals up, but when the lead is only one, if sloppiness is punished then the consequences are more dire.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2026
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But after entering the second quarter with a 26-8 lead, UConn’s offense abruptly devolved into sloppiness.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2026
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Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Purity, impurity, and the laws and rituals designed to manage the boundary between them — these are the cornerstone concerns of the Book of Leviticus, the third book of the Old Testament.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Existing extraction methods cannot scale quickly enough or reach many lithium-rich brines that contain impurities or low concentrations.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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There, they were crammed in squalor before being shot to death and buried in mass graves in the Liaudiskiai forest with the help of local Nazi collaborators.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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For Stroheim, the palaces and playgrounds of the rich are elaborate concealments of the drudgery and the squalor underlying comforts and luxuries—and even the bare necessities of everyday people.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Mussiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mussiness. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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