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Recent Examples of rutted
Turning onto the dead-end road, the car coasts down the rutted driveway to the house at the bottom.
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Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The terrain ranges from steep mountains and rock faces to deep desert sands and rutted trails.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Not far from a city landfill, the convoy pulls off the highway and enters a rutted dirt road, hidden from view by the branches of weeping willows.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The terrain ranges from steep mountains and rock faces to deep desert sands and rutted trails.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Not far from a city landfill, the convoy pulls off the highway and enters a rutted dirt road, hidden from view by the branches of weeping willows.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rutted
Adjective
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Curly textures are naturally drier and more prone to frizz than straight or wavy hair, which makes choosing the right oil a critical step in any curly hair-care routine.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
1 Sep. 2025
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Sun streams through wavy windows and splashes across bottles and glasses lining the bar.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Running terrain of the rocky-rooty-rutty variety is fun and rewarding, but no easy task.—
Lisa Jhung,
Outside Online,
1 Aug. 2025
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Bills owner Terry Pegula has implored coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane to coax more of an executive demeanor out of Allen, a transformation that never took last year and likely added to Allen’s rutty play through 10 games.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
23 July 2024
Adjective
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Not the pitted crow-feather black olives that cuddled between gherkins and pickled watermelon rind in our holiday relish dish; those were tasteless gloomy orbs cured with lye and dyed with chemical additives.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
28 July 2025
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Toss in pitted dates or a dollop of maple syrup for a bit of natural sweetness.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
7 July 2025
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“Rutted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rutted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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