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muddle

[muhd-l] / ˈmʌd l /




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Another muddle concerns his expectations of economic gains from artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

For China’s economy to muddle along, Chu says, the U.S. economy needs to do well and keep buying Chinese goods, even if they are no longer coming via Vietnam or Malaysia.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

Big picture: The economy might perk up in 2026 as trade wars fade and new tax breaks kick in, but the U.S. is likely to muddle through to the new year.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

The world's finance ministers on their field trip to Washington have had to assume the world economy will muddle through this.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

When to prepare her own meal because today’s cook would muddle the soup, when to bring a shawl because Indiana nights were a shiver, colder than she’d ever known.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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