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Recent Examples of puddled
Frail elderly women, swathed in headscarves and saris, worshipped while sitting on puddled pavement near corroded metal changing lockers plastered with ads for Glow & Lovely skin cream.
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Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
This length is easier to maintain and avoids the tripping hazards of puddled fabric while still looking polished.
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Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Dec. 2025
Fashion insiders wear them with puddled trousers and oversized knits; celebrities sport them year-round with jeans and knits, and preps still swear by a traditional black or oxblood pair that goes with everything.
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Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
15 Nov. 2025
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
This length is easier to maintain and avoids the tripping hazards of puddled fabric while still looking polished.
—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Dec. 2025
Fashion insiders wear them with puddled trousers and oversized knits; celebrities sport them year-round with jeans and knits, and preps still swear by a traditional black or oxblood pair that goes with everything.
—
Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
15 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puddled
Adjective
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Bloody, disturbing, shocking, and entertaining as hell, the Ghost Ship opening couldn’t be any more different from the absolute slog that follows it, climaxing on a muddled and overly complicated ending.
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So the relationship of high rates for long-term CDs and low rates for short-term CDs remains muddled.
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Instead of powder blue, Saab recommends going bolder with a matte lapis or deep, inky navy blue.
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Celebrity nail artist Julie Kandalec painted Emily Blunt’s short, square nails an inky shade of purple for the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027 show, while Charli XCX wore a short, black cherry manicure by artist Naomi Yasuda to the 2026 Met Gala.
Adjective
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Melanie Hamrick, a former member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet, was leaping down a dingy stairwell in the company’s lower-Broadway rehearsal building recently.
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Even though modern machines and detergents have taken most of the workload out of the task, there are still some outdated laundry habits that may leave your clothes and linens looking dingy, smelling less than fresh, and feeling scratchy.
Adjective
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During a nearly four-hour Friday hearing in Mecklenburg County small claims court, Jackson and Agape’s attorneys parsed through a muddied timeline that involved verbal agreements between Ball, Jackson and either Cam Newton or his father, Cecil Newton.
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There is a desperate need to protect first-party data, which becomes muddied when bots, rather than humans, navigate a site.
Adjective
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The wild sci-fi elements, such as scummy aliens and wacky monsters, will likely remind audiences of a Marvel effort, namely Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
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Does that kind of discourse-friendly success override the fact that Euphoria is too young, too scummy, and too dumb to fit into the usual Emmy pattern?
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The details remain murky, but the investment fund would be financed privately and not by US taxpayers, according to the administration.
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For a predator that relies on sight and fast reaction distances in shallow water, murky conditions can alter the entire hunting landscape and prey may become harder to detect.
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Below, in an unfiltered, minimally edited (only for clarity) interview, the mother-daughter duo take PEOPLE through the final days on set, share their hopes for the characters' futures and answer a few lingering questions.
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With Ride or Die, Evan strips away all expectations and aims to start over and present an unfiltered side of himself.
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“Puddled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puddled. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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