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as in silty
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as in unsettled
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Adjective
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The plant prefers rich, loamy, well-draining soil.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
8 June 2026 -
How To Use Traditional Fertilizers Tomatoes thrive in loamy soils with good drainage and high organic matter content.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Storm chances increase again on Sunday and continue into next week as upper-level ridging shifts east and a more unsettled southwest flow develops.—
Nelly Carreño,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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The unsettled question is who owns the funnel from manuscript to listener.—
Gabriel Alin Zainescu,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Slaten answers his critics The allegations against Slaten aren’t quite as slimy.—
Rafael Perez,
Daily News,
25 May 2026
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Instead, a simple rinse-and-scrub routine keeps the bath safe while preventing slimy growth from taking over.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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Shane Tipton, of Unionville, Missouri, drove home from his factory job Wednesday afternoon, unaware that severe weather was on the way, said his daughter, Kylie Rouse.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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As the front moves into very warm, unstable air, some storms could turn severe.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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The town attracts large numbers of laborers who work in large gold mines with muddy pools of gold deposits, narrow pits and caves.—
Justin Kabumba,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
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As Inga grows to adulthood the biggest dam has destroyed the lake’s shoreline, leaving it muddy and covered with stones.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
7 June 2026
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Bichette is off to a brutal start, Francisco Lindor’s spring hamate injury may have affected his power even before his calf strain knocked him out for the last month, and Jorge Polanco has barely been on the field.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Hounded by a loud, impatient Eisenhower and faced with the very real evidence that a brutal trio of storms will make an early June invasion impossible, Stagg is torn between doing his duty and, well, doing his duty.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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The menu is full of sustaining stews, ample vegetables and, from the toné (clay oven), khachapuri, a genre of breads infiltrated by cheese and by turns fluffy, elastic, oozy and tender.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Those chunks will melt on top into oozy, photo-worthy pools of chocolate.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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These attempts to keep down the unquiet dead were, besides being desecrations, exercises in a lot of heavy and often forbidden labor done on decaying bodies.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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The finale had the impossible task of putting the monstrous show to an unquiet grave, and while some storylines seemed rushed and others completely ignored, even everyone’s least favorite season of GOT is heart palpitating.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Roily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roily. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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