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  • s  (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

  • We forget sometimes that to be a teenager any teenager is to learn to cope with the turbid, inchoate bigotries of still-developing minds.
  • The air is suddenly so turbid that your daughter, who has asthma, is throwing up in the hall bathroom.
  • Don't swim in dirty or turbid water.
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  • I Can't Play This 2008 Game Online Forever, Plaintiff Complains
    Well, the ever-roiling, always-turbid waters of California consumer law have just coughed up yet another ridiculous creature whose slowly decomposing corpse will stink up the once-pleasant beach that is the federal docket for the next several months. (Previous sentence ©2013 Kevin Underhill, all rights reserved.)
    July 31, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Bob Debus in Sydney Morning Herald
    An experimental bore in the Leonay area near Penrith was producing water that was very turbid, not contaminated, but muddy,Mr Debus told ABC radio. "The environment and conservation department was worried that too much of that water was...
  • John Wesley Powell in USA Today
    Floods ...... have brought down great quantities of mud, making (the river) exceedingly turbid,Powell wrote on Aug. 16, 1869, as he navigated the canyon.

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