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Examples of muck up in a Sentence
I swear, she mucks up everything she tries.
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Sadly, a corpse discovered in the waters just beyond the house mucks up the divine press coverage Greer had been arranging with—huh!—People magazine.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
By comparing the gene trees to the species trees, the researchers estimated rates of horizontal gene transfer, gene loss and other evolutionary processes that could muck up the picture.
—Jonathan Lambert, Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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
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Word History
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 27 Dec. 2024.
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