fuzz
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Peach fuzz and similar hairs are especially abundant around the mouths and ears of both humans and mice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
These hairs resemble the fine, short, light colored vellus hairs that cover much of the human body, commonly known as peach fuzz.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I’m Actually Kinda Famous” sneers and taunts a portrayal of fame over synths, and “Cannibalism!” is wrapped in youthful desire and garage rock fuzz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Removing graduation years from the education section of your résumé is another way to fuzz up your career length.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
All by itself, so that it wouldn’t shed green fuzz all over everything.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
Jones and Corden explained that the idea was for the tape to play and just as viewers brace for the big reveal, the footage fuzzes out and jams.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
That fuzzes up the rationale for being restrictive about what can happen near one but not the other.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
The silkscreen process fuzzes the scene, while a mechanically produced grid interrupts any easy perceptions of naturalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
Musically, it's hardly unfamiliar – weeping Americana, backed with fuzzes of electric guitar and organ that slide in and out of focus, discomfiting and discombobulating – but expertly done.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2013
This became now somewhat uneven and irregular in appearance, and full of knots and fuzzes which were picked out with hand-tweezers by burlers before it was fulled or milled, as it was sometimes called.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
The faces of these supposedly brave men are more fuzzed out than Bigfoot in that famous footage from 1967.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Their skin is thick with tight fuzzed hair, which makes it less amenable to bloodsucking insects like mosquitoes.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024
My vision is reduced to a small gauze window hidden in Bertie’s mouth; all audio is fuzzed out by the fleece around my ears.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2020
Khamenei has fuzzed this commitment at the very moment it needs to become sharper.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2015
The light from her bedroom window had fuzzed the top of his buzz cut like a dandelion.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Showing packed shelves celebrates that, while fuzzing the books to make them unreadable also dissolves any preconceptions they contain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
A new system of fuzzing out some data to protect the privacy of respondents could further complicate attempts to assess the survey’s accuracy at smaller geographic levels.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Sheets of sand whirled across the canal, graying the horizon and cutting visibility like static fuzzing a TV screen.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
It's not an "immersive" experience, in the way of giant-screen IMAX, but it’s an intensely personal and absorbing one, with the world around you fuzzing away into the background.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2012
I listened with growing uneasiness to the conversation fuzzing away to a whisper.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
