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blurry

[blur-ee] / ˈblɜr i /
ADJECTIVE
hazy
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STRONGEST


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I’m driving down Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles, listening to Matt’s proposal over my car speaker, my eyes blurry from crying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Suddenly, it was blurry and her peripheral vision waned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Glasses or contact lenses can correct blurry vision, but severe myopia also raises the risk of serious eye problems later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even so, as the line between investing and gambling grows increasingly blurry, it’s understandable that some consumers might get confused.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Through my blurry eye, I can see all the other students staring at me.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

"Intensity mapping is like viewing the same scene through a smudged plane window: you get a blurrier picture, but you capture all the light and not just the brightest spots."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026

In the NCAA’s era of free player movement and NIL payments, the lines that separate college from professional sports have never been blurrier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The ancient astrological chart has now become even blurrier.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

These cones are also responsible for sharpness of vision, so a cat’s eyesight is blurrier, despite their superior low-light vision.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024

Zooming in on it only makes it blurrier.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

“You could see every crater, you could see every color, from something that we only had the blurriest understanding of before,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

This has been the blurriest of years, after all — a year when most of us saw new movies at home, not in theaters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

The realm of “social spam” and the quantified audience is the blurriest of these—where fairly acceptable and established methods of getting attention and audience management may begin to shade into spam.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2013

A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was collegial and interdisciplinary, with only the blurriest lines distinguishing the individual researchers’ responsibilities.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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