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At a regular briefing on Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said: "The report in question is based on groundless speculation and is nothing more than an attempt to smear China."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

She says she has faced a coordinated smear campaign against her, which has at times invoked her son's death and accusations that she is betraying his memory.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

China has rejected what it calls malicious attempts to smear the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hayler denies all the charges against him and says the allegations are a "smear campaign to ruin me" by Price.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

A wild smear of his thumb for the brush.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

“I was just trying to get through a tray at a time,” she says, “but there were layers of smears that had come in overnight.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

I did the dishes, swept dust and candy wrappers out from underneath the couch, mopped the living room floor, wiped the bathroom sink clean of my toothpaste smears, and even made my bed.

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

Barr comes off as a caricature of the “great male narcissists,” as David Foster Wallace memorably smeared postwar novelists such as Norman Mailer and John Updike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Every visitor must exit through the Blood Room, a gruesomely immersive space whose walls are streaked, smeared, splattered and practically dripping with the red stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

I dropped a bit of blue paint on the bottom by accident, so I smeared it and made a river.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

“Gray raindrops pattered listlessly on the kitchen window, obscuring the thin morning light” as Honor Wilson is found smearing “a dot of margarine across some toast.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Ramos said the audio was about smearing his work, adding "no Mexican authority took responsibility for that audio."

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Mullin did not apologize for his remarks and instead accused Paul of smearing his character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

In the post he also accused other media outlets or TV programmes of "smearing" him through "a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

Everyone laughed and screamed and began smearing each other with yolk, chasing each other up and down the house, rocking its frame with their stamping feet.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García