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The congresswoman added that her relationship with the president is “100% professional,” and that any suggestion otherwise is an attempt to smear her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Piker, who has said he was raised Muslim but is non-practicing, called himself a victim of a "coordinated smear campaign" and Islamophobia.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

"In recent months, we've been suffering a smear campaign against one of our players."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence,” Attiah said in another post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

I smear peanut butter on crackers for him—after confirming he’s not allergic—and serve them with a glass of iced tea.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Researchers gently rub the parchment with a dry cytology brush, the same type of brush used for Pap smears.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

She tears into a warm baguette, smears it with chèvre and hands him a piece.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

So when Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen asked him about the Atlantic’s recent report regarding his alleged drinking on the job, Patel leapt at Van Hollen with a set of smears.

From Slate ● May 16, 2026

Ingerson posted on social media that there had been a "two-year long campaign of bullying, lies, rumours and smears designed to stop my candidacy".

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

Only then will we be able to see them individually and not as smears or streaks.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Lean and wet and smeared with grass, he introduces himself as Lincoln Hedberg from New Jersey.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

“It almost looks like Cheeto dust,” she said, “like somebody had Cheetos on their fingers and just smeared it on the landscape.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Dirt was smeared across their faces and arms and legs.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups have accused China of heavily underreporting the death toll from devastating flooding in border regions with Nepal, claims Beijing rejected as "malicious smearing and sensationalism".

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

He held a press conference outside his law office a few blocks away as rain fell, smearing reporters’ notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

But when he discovers a beehive, he shares the honey with his fellow prisoners by smearing it over his body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

His ill-fated attempt to unmask a whistleblower he thought was smearing an old colleague, was seen by some – but not all – as evidence of fierce loyalty to his own troops.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025

And then Mona was smearing an ointment over the cut, and she pressed a cloth against it.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo