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guck (or gook), mire, muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, slush
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Dorm mold became a nationwide sensation s little more than three weeks ago after a Facebook page, amn/nco/snco, posted photos of black and green sludge in Lackland living areas for technical training students. — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, "Almost one-third of dorm rooms at Joint Base San Antonio had mold, mildew," 17 Aug. 2019 Treated sludge from West Virginia coal mines contain heavy rare-earths in particular, which are valuable and have few suppliers outside of China. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "China’s saber-rattling on rare-earths trade has US officials looking for options," 30 May 2019 While the bottles did not smell, chemical analysis of the sludge did reveal some of the ingredients. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Cleopatra May Have Once Smelled Like This Recreated Perfume," 9 Aug. 2019 The mine discharged six tons of toxic sludge daily before an EPA cleanup. — Matthew Brown, The Seattle Times, "50M gallons of polluted water pours daily from US mine sites," 20 Feb. 2019 Crops and animals have died around a crusty lake of radioactive black sludge formed from mining waste near a major mining site in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. — Los Angeles Times, "The hidden costs of China’s rare-earth trade," 29 July 2019 Much of the sludge is stored in single-wall underground tanks that have leaked. — Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, "Nuclear waste will be classified as safer under a controversial Trump administration change," 5 June 2019 On August 12, 1960, Barbara was sedated, and her hips and legs were punctured fifty times with a large-bore needle to extract the crimson sludge of her bone marrow. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies," 15 July 2019 The sickening sludge isn’t just concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico. — al.com, "‘All bets are off’: Toxic algae bloom shutters Mississippi beaches, causes worry in Alabama," 12 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sludge.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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