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Noun
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For better or worse, Dawson served as an emotional, often cautionary, proxy for millennials’ own coming-of-age messiness.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026 -
It’s widely understood that to shop secondhand is to enter into a treasure hunt, where messiness is permitted and persistence is rewarded with bargains and unique items.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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He has been criticised over sloppiness in previous games but was solid at the back and impressive with his passing to break Valencia’s lines.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rather, most everyone on coach Dennis Gates’ active roster for the game had a hand in the sloppiness.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
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Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
12 Dec. 2025
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In traditional Chinese medicine, blood is an important part of women’s health as a source of vitality rather than impurity.—
Megan Bryson,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2026
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Issues include the potential for impurities in the products, possible immune reactions and a lack of safety warnings on labels.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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Many came from grinding poverty and squalor.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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There, they were crammed in squalor before being shot to death and buried in mass graves in the Liaudiskiai forest with the help of local Nazi collaborators.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Mussiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mussiness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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