muddy the waters

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muddy
In the case of rise, it is possible that the existence of raise (as opposed to make rise) muddies the waters to an extent.
My first task will be to say why the focus upon mental representation has muddied the waters.
Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s, just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades.
She muddies the waters further in her efforts to justify toleration as recognition.
They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds.
Here their prescriptions were often muddied by the residual influences of the patriarchal, theocratic system.
The picture is muddied somewhat by the fact that inflection itself isn't always regular.
Because if it rained too much, the water got muddied, spoiling the "stuff" (water mixed with pulped rags) that went into the paper.
Though the actors liked this because it gave them time to think about the next cycle, it also muddied the enactment of the cycle.
Hards, where seamen may step ashore without muddying their boots, occur where the water velocity is sufficient to carry away fine clays and sands.
On this point the waters were about to be muddied even more.
Reed readily acknowledges these complexities and ambiguities but muddies the water further by attempting to demonstrate that events themselves can bear the same analysis as books can.
The muddy symbolic mapping knowledge consists of fuzzy facts, fuzzy rules, and fuzzy procedures.
However, we argue that scenarios conceptually equivalent to the muddy children puzzle can occur in robotics.
I am concerned that we are getting into muddied waters.
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