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The title refers to a sleepy coastal acreage in North Carolina that Reels family ancestor Mitchell bought in the early 1900s, but in the absence of a will, became murkily divided into “heirs’ property” shares.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

NORFOLK, Va. — When the Titan submersible made its fateful dive into the North Atlantic on Sunday, it also plunged into the murkily regulated waters of deep-sea exploration.

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Medical historians say that’s typically how past pandemics have “ended” — murkily, with some gradual but mass cultural or psychological shift that maybe doesn’t have all that much to do with scientific reality.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2022

As long as Schumann was in command, the production proved murkily compelling.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019

On the walls were several prints, which were of elongated figures, murkily colored.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood