muddler

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Recent Examples of muddler For more instant gratification, grab a muddler (or the back of a wooden spoon or the end of a rolling pin). The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • The Dodgers reached the pinnacle honestly, in a capitalistic structure that properly hands no favors to the incompetent.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • That’s when Champion made thick cotton tops with hoods to help keep butchers warm in meat lockers and construction crews insulated during periods of cold outdoor labor.
    Faran Krentcil, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • The back room of Flod’s studio is like a butcher’s walk-in fridge, where dozens more masks hang from the ceiling, each more outlandish than the last.
    Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
    Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Muddler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muddler. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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