sludge

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as in mud
soft wet earth after a day of heavy rain, the fairgrounds had turned into pure sludge

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as in corn
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental I can't bring myself to read that sludge

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Recent Examples of sludge Torrents of poisonous sludge pouring through collapsed tailings dams have contaminated waterways in Brazil, Canada, and elsewhere and killed hundreds of people—in addition to the hundreds, possibly thousands, of miners who die in workplace accidents each year. Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 Even The Daily Mail picked it up—the surest sign that a story has become part of the Internet’s lowbrow sludge. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024 As a result, sludge in healthcare marketing causes: • Ineffective communication. Harshit Jain, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 Then Elon Musk, the world richest’s man, got involved, meming the squirrel to oblivion while his minions began cranking out AI sludge of former President Donald Trump and Peanut standing triumphantly, together. Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sludge 
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Noun
  • From clothing to fingernails, everything is soot and mud and ash and blood.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Split open at the seam and tender female feet urged in to keep the damp and mud at bay; slippers of a sort.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Indiana orchard carves stunning Caitlin Clark tribute into corn maze County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana, has seen record crowds come to witness its Caitlin Clark corn maze in honor of the WNBA Fever and former Iowa star this Halloween season.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Feedlots demand corn – a lot of it – which pushes farmers to grow more.
    Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There were photorealistic renderings of male and female heads and bodies festooned with strange confetti-like colored goo.
    John Werner, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • My husband, Dave, still wears the shirt with his workplace nickname – The Spam King – printed in the iconic Spam lettering, nestled in the yellow goo from the can.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Sludge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sludge. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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