I. noun
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get
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Gerald Ford getting into a muddle about what was and wasn't a Warsaw Pact country.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a legal muddle
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Gerald Ford getting into a muddle about what was and wasn't a Warsaw Pact country.
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It is too valuable a document of human heartbreak and muddle to be scorned or dismissed.
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Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along, we live in a perpetual muddle .
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None of the muddle in her room mattered.
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Over the years the generations had gotten into a chronological muddle .
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She could sense his muddle , and it touched her.
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This book assesses the technological fix for the muddle left by downsizing and reengineering.
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Unless, of course, there had been a muddle in the names.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
along
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Analytical ability Does the candidate reason his or her way through the question or simply muddle along its surface?
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The challenge is overcoming that nagging sense that old ideas are merely being reworked, that sense of muddling along .
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Yet it is not clear if the Communist party has an alternative strategy or is just muddling along .
through
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They must muddle through in a fog of grumble and contempt.
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You muddle through , reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck.
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While children were very young it was possible to muddle through .
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Like so many other students, he had muddled through without having to break a sweat.
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When it comes to the detail of everyday life most of us just muddle through somehow, but Dennis was a Platonist.
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She just has to muddle through .
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My own feeling in 1981 was that we should try to achieve something better and that just muddling through was not enough.
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Or I can stay, as I know I probably will. Muddle through .
up
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It's too bad of Blondel, he keeps getting them muddled up and out of order.
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It is likely that a good many valuable stones were destroyed in this way because Pliny was muddling up hardness and toughness.
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get
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It's too bad of Blondel, he keeps getting them muddled up and out of order.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I found them to be muddled, frightened, weary.
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Passion starts to muddle my thinking.
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Several incidents are clever and revealing, others muddled.
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The lines between re-creations and reality are so muddled that some news programs have even used Hollywood films to illustrate news stories.
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They muddled around the fringes of true power, never quite brave enough or decisive enough to take the plunge.
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While children were very young it was possible to muddle through.
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You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck.
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You can see why it is easy to be muddled about carbohydrate.