adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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water
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Catfish of several species do so and appear to be calling to one another as they move in murky water .
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Moorhens, mallards, grebes and a heron work the murky water for their evening meals.
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A single sinuous shape, shedding milk light, moved in the cold, murky water overhead.
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My torch showed small bubbles in the murky water on the base of the pan.
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He also found five fish swimming in murky water in an old bathtub.
waters
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I would be chary of anything caught in these murky waters .
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A fish that comes from slow-moving often murky waters is unlikely to appreciate bright lighting or turbulent filtration.
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A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters .
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This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters .
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But then our conversations took a dive into the murky waters of sexuality and jealousy.
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People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky waters .
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Multi-dimensional scaling can help to clear the murky waters .
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To venture into such murky waters claiming scholarly privilege, the scholarship must be beyond reproach.
world
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Other regulators seemed likely to applaud the proposal for making more transparent the often murky world of derivatives.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uncharted/troubled/murky waters
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A fish that comes from slow-moving often murky waters is unlikely to appreciate bright lighting or turbulent filtration.
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A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters .
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And instead of heading off into uncharted waters , Shyamalan has positively invited comparisons with his previous opus.
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But then our conversations took a dive into the murky waters of sexuality and jealousy.
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Clearly the 49ers are sailing in uncharted waters .
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I would be chary of anything caught in these murky waters .
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Other career seekers are more interested in venturing into uncharted waters .
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This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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murky water
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the murky and ambiguous world of spying
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The committee is struggling to sort out the facts on a number of murky issues.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single sinuous shape, shedding milk light, moved in the cold, murky water overhead.
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By afternoon the atmosphere seems translucent blue, like some murky view must have looked through a Silurian sea.
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Determining motivation in any human endeavor is a murky matter, but two motives stand out: making money and making law.
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He walked from there, up barren gray streets, streetlamps painting the sidewalks a murky bronze.
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The fact that the definitions of these terms are extremely murky can inpart be traced to the notion of pertinent effects.
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There is an eerie stamp of disaster about this wind-thrown entanglement in the murky half-light of night water.
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Video: This is the murkiest field for the new company.
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Water that was clear and alive with wildlife as recently as the late 1940s is now murky and almost lifeless.