muddle through
verb
muddled through; muddling through; muddles through
: to achieve a degree of success without much planning or effort
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After she was diagnosed at age 48 with Type 1 diabetes, Stacey Silverman muddled through her days with high blood sugar, fatigue and splitting headaches.
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Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2024
There’s no sense in this book that a life is something to muddle through, with pockets of happiness and unhappiness along the way, or that a life might be best lived in service to something other than the self.
—Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024
Together, the three muddle through the holidays, somehow, finding commonalities in their shared loneliness.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 May 2024
The profits of chocolate companies have continued to rise as farmers have continued to muddle through harsh conditions.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 24 Apr. 2024
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Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2024
There’s no sense in this book that a life is something to muddle through, with pockets of happiness and unhappiness along the way, or that a life might be best lived in service to something other than the self.
—Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024
Together, the three muddle through the holidays, somehow, finding commonalities in their shared loneliness.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 May 2024
The profits of chocolate companies have continued to rise as farmers have continued to muddle through harsh conditions.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 24 Apr. 2024
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“Muddle through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muddle%20through. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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