as in to mess
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Trade professionals and home improvement DIYers often buy heavy-duty handheld vacuums to clean job site messes like sawdust, drywall dust or wood shavings.—
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Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025 -
That messed me up, that messed my friends up, messed my whole family up.—
Benjamin Royer,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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But which No 9 good enough to lead a Premier League promotion chase is going to come to Leeds this month and sit on the bench waiting for the Dutchman to get crocked? Farke has mentioned Gnonto as an emergency striker option, if needed.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 July 2024
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Then there’s a group of seven or eight players who seem to be jumbled up in the second tier.—
Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Everything—tenant requests, work orders, daily communications—was jumbled in a web of text messages.—
Minna Hu,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Ferrari’s unhealthy reputation for muddling their decisions looked to have been eradicated last year in Fred Vasseur’s first season as team principal, but the issue has reared its head again over the opening two races of 2025.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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There was something stark and piercing in me that was much closer to clarity than to muddle, but calling it a muddle took less effort.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately, Ambrose wants viewers to come away from the film with a better understanding of kids with DSD, knowing that there’s nothing disordered or wrong about them.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2025
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Next, the researchers looked at the relationship between the frequency of use of these apps and disordered eating, body image, and compulsive exercise.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Feb. 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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Many communities are losing their water sources from glacier melt, while others are seeing local streams discolored and turned toxic by recently exposed rocks full of heavy metals and which were once covered by thick sheets of ice.—
Simeon Tegel,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2025
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Since there aren’t synthetic colors, the company says the fabric can discolor more easily when exposed to chemicals like benzoyl peroxide.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Colly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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