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Discover LudwigThe phrase "muddied by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means that something is made unclear or confusing due to certain factors or circumstances. Example: The situation was muddied by conflicting accounts from different witnesses.
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His muscular internationalism is muddied by vagueness on Iraq.
The picture is also muddied by the recession.
The waters are muddied by apparent support for multiple people.
They had clearly been well prepared, but the chorales were inevitably muddied by the echo.
The shifting status of homage is further muddied by the modish French-influenced version, oh-MAZH.
That means these markers may be less muddied by confounders than other factors tied to aging.
But the brief glimpse of the future was muddied by the realities of the present.
For too long, he says, American politics were muddied by geography.
Had the jewellery world become muddied by the introduction of semi-precious and even fake stones?
How the waters got muddied by swimsuit technology bears plenty of study.
In behavioral genetics, spectacular findings tend to be muddied by subsequent research.
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