smudge
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I saw Trevor around the gym for months — scattered tattoos and black tank top with a cute smudge of climbing chalk on their ears.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024
I got a few distant glimpses during the first few years I lived here, a gray-green smudge on the horizon.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024
Family members of the victims gathered Monday to smudge, a traditional practice for safety, well-being and healing, before the inquest began.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024
When the team marked them with pink powder, the birds showed no inclination to inspect or touch the smudge in front of the mirror the way that Dr. Gallup’s chimps did.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023
The only sign that anything had happened here was a smudge on the glass wall—probably Jonah’s own fingerprints, smeared against the glass when he’d scrambled out a window.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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