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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
Due to unseasonably warm temperatures, many areas on the slopes are spotted with slush and mud.
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Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
The difference between the energy of the machine that resolutely crosses the cordillera and the tiny zeal in the wings of an insect that asks only for leaves to eat and mud in which to house her eggs.
Crumbled sidewalks were replaced by planks that covered the sludge that concealed the ancient wood fretwork that buried the bones of the metropolis and its people.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
The second is a 100-day sludge line that will poison the reserves oil-hungry nations are racing to drain.