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Recent Examples of sludge
Although brine, sludge, and drilling waste have been copiously spilled and spread across the country since the nineteenth century, and although scientists have documented extensive amounts of contamination, a 1980 federal exemption legally defines oil and gas waste as nonhazardous.
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Justin Nobel, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
In reality, what comes out of reactors is far from the dangerous, radioactive sludge seen in movies or conjured in our imaginations.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
Sewage sludge has now been spread on millions of acres across the country.
—Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Despite the film’s best efforts to melt its characters into the vast sludge of superhero cinema, the union between Eddie and Venom is simply too pure to be diluted down to nothing.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024
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Justin Nobel, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
In reality, what comes out of reactors is far from the dangerous, radioactive sludge seen in movies or conjured in our imaginations.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
Sewage sludge has now been spread on millions of acres across the country.
—Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Despite the film’s best efforts to melt its characters into the vast sludge of superhero cinema, the union between Eddie and Venom is simply too pure to be diluted down to nothing.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sludge
Noun
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In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near the Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Los Angeles Magazine shared a video of crews using bulldozers to clean up the mud from the Pacific Coast Highway.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Afterward, a typical church lunch was served, with macaroni and cheese, corn pudding, and other carbohydrates.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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There are soups like stone crab and cream corn chowder as well as crab and avocado salad.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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So anyway, rather than wasting an episode or two on Peter Parker trying out makeshift suits or learning to master his goo and whatnot, things pick up three months later with Peter in the earliest stages of super-heroism.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
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Once Sharon was inside, an employee soaked her hands and nails, then slathered them with goos, gels and paints.—
Topher Sanders,
ProPublica,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Sludge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sludge. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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