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Recent Examples of sludgeThe unanimous vote on Feb. 11 paves the way for federal help for those whose land has been contaminated by PFAS in fertilizer made from sewage sludge.—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2025 Guests can sign up to walk to the canal and toss in Genki balls, filled with microorganisms that eat away at the sludge in the canal created from manmade pollutants.—Jalyn Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2025 Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025 Add the bark powder, which turns into DMT-laden sludge.—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sludge
The crews used an excavator to lift the uninjured Dancer out of the mud, officials said.
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Paloma Chavez,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
Seven dump trucks hauled 92 tons of mud and silt from Loveland Pass, which was buried Sunday by a 100-foot-wide and 20-foot-deep landslide, according to a news release from the department.
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