fuzz
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Liberty Mutual worked with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, reviewing six characters and over 160 ad concepts, before settling on the final fuzz ball, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"They're much less hairy than other pigs - Rana had ginger fuzz when she was born, but that's gone now," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Peach fuzz and similar hairs are especially abundant around the mouths and ears of both humans and mice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
I stare at the fuzz on my jeans and pick at it and pick at it, and this whole string pops out.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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 Alice Morse Earle
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
Khamenei has fuzzed this commitment at the very moment it needs to become sharper.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2015
What awaits is the throwback-to-saccharine 60s girl-band inspired pop paired with an almost manic dose of fuzzed out backwash that only the evilest of musical geniuses would dare tread upon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2013
She should have realized that, but her anxiety to get the money and get going had fuzzed her common sense.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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
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
His efforts invite you deeper into the medium as a physical discipline while fuzzing the boundaries that separate it from other forms of pictorial expression.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2011
Tam smiles back, love fuzzing all over his Noise.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
