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Recent Examples of mud
The result is a safer material that no longer carries the caustic nature of untreated red mud.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
After the flood waters receded, Marshall was left with several feet of mud to contend with, while the storm surge ripped through the sides of certain buildings in Hot Springs.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
As for towels, they'll likely be soaked or caked with mud after every use.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
This feature enhances the AWD system in low traction situations like snow, dirt, or mud by optimizing engine output, transmission settings, and torque distribution.
—Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
After the flood waters receded, Marshall was left with several feet of mud to contend with, while the storm surge ripped through the sides of certain buildings in Hot Springs.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
As for towels, they'll likely be soaked or caked with mud after every use.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
This feature enhances the AWD system in low traction situations like snow, dirt, or mud by optimizing engine output, transmission settings, and torque distribution.
—Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mud
Noun
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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.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
15 Sep. 2025
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Desalinating that water, however, would produce tons of brine, or super-salty sludge, as waste.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The study recommends strategic test areas of algicide and treatments to sequester nutrients after large-scale mechanical clearing of the muck.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Passing through clear plastic tubes, muck was sliced into disks like hockey pucks.—
Rodrique Ngowi,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But the version at the Saenger was a different song entirely—quiet and haunting, delivered in a rocks-and-gravel voice to a dark hall that had gone dead silent.—
Tom Piazza
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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Then in the 1960s, Lake Burtnieks’s northern shore was used as a gravel quarry.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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California beaches were closed; skate parks were filled with sand.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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In the heigh of summer, the beaches are often completely blanketed with umbrellas and beach towels, leaving little room to actually see the sand.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mud. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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