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Recent Examples of guckThe water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck.—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022 Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.—Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019 Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
In an effort to cut down on this waste, researchers have figured out a way to send electric pulses through the mud to purify it and allow it to be reused instead of discarded.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Sep. 2025
There may be switches or a dial on the center console that can be used to make the ride softer, the handling more precise and/or to maximize traction while driving over snow, mud or rocks.
The Little Calumet, just blocks from where Steagall used to live, had shores like quicksand from all the toxic sludge and the Grand Calumet River was one of the most polluted bodies of water emptying into Lake Michigan.
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Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
15 Sep. 2025
Desalinating that water, however, would produce tons of brine, or super-salty sludge, as waste.
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