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Examples of muck up in a Sentence
I swear, she mucks up everything she tries.
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Part of that journey was squaring Montoya’s goal of playing entertaining, attacking soccer with mucking up the game.
—Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Draymond Green, who has been terrific this season defensively, constantly mucked up the paint with rotations.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
This wouldn’t be the first time such a discrepancy mucks up the MCU.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 July 2024
Stock market The stock market is off to its best start to a year since 1997 but a massive dockworkers strike underway in the US could muck up some of that progress, economists say.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1896, in the meaning defined above
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“Muck up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muck%20up. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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