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Recent Examples of rutted
The route is washboarded and deeply rutted in several long stretches, as well as prone to washouts.
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Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
And then there were pics of Ben several years on, driving himself to class through the rutted streets of Cambridge in his motorized chair, or engulfed on the sideline by his teammates at the annual Yale-Harvard classic.
—Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
And a four-corner hydraulic-lift system takes the worry out of speed humps or heavily rutted roads.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
The Land Rover Defender Octa was airborne for what felt like an eternity, all four wheels spinning free above the rutted Baja-style course in Gateway, Colorado.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 12 Sep. 2025
Turning onto the dead-end road, the car coasts down the rutted driveway to the house at the bottom.
—Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The terrain ranges from steep mountains and rock faces to deep desert sands and rutted trails.
—Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rutted
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The Australian actor debuted long retro sideburns and long dark wavy hair while telling the real-life story of a Neil Diamond tribute band in Song Sung Blue opposite Kate Hudson last year.—
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Lubeck, who has aquamarine eyes and long, wavy hair, cuts an ethereal figure, like an elven noble.—
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Running terrain of the rocky-rooty-rutty variety is fun and rewarding, but no easy task.—
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Bills owner Terry Pegula has implored coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane to coax more of an executive demeanor out of Allen, a transformation that never took last year and likely added to Allen’s rutty play through 10 games.—
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Go for Guacamole For the smoothest, creamiest homemade guacamole, push your pitted avocados through a potato ricer.—
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Meanwhile, River and Coe scramble to cover up their presence on the scene, with Coe taking River’s cash to buy him new clothes and using the extra change for pitted cherries.—
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“Rutted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rutted. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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