puddled

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puddled
Adjective
  • Over the course of a few hours in Washington on Tuesday, the increasingly muddled state of public health unfolded.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This is an impossible task – partly due to Trump’s own muddled thinking – but most importantly, because Putin does not want peace.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gothic beauty is spilling all over the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet, with a litany of a-listers donning inky black eyeshadow and nude lip shades.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Japanese, slight in build, sporting a gray T-shirt, with inky hair cut into a modish bowl, neither Greenberg nor Bowyer yet knew the man’s name — Ippei Mizuhara.
    DAVID AMSDEN, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The couple spent 118 days — nearly four months — on their raft and dingy in the open water before they were rescued by chance by a passing Korean vessel.
    Susan Young, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Always look for bright, vibrant heads of lettuce and avoid brown spots or dingy yellow leaves.
    Lauren O'Connor, Health, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Her feet are bare, the toenails a little muddied.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Computers, desks, a washer and dryer were among the belongings in the muddied basement that were wrecked in the storm.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the outlook for heavier-duty Russian rocket engines is murky, at best.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Cowboys are coming off a Week 1 loss to the Eagles, and their immediate future is looking murky.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The stela offers a rare, unfiltered look at how Egypt’s traditions were expressed under Ptolemaic rule, highlighting the decree’s importance for understanding religion, governance, and royal ideology.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Posing too hard in each snap was uncool; Snapchat was meant to be unfiltered, that is until filters came out.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Puddled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puddled. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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