fuzz
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These hairs resemble the fine, short, light colored vellus hairs that cover much of the human body, commonly known as peach fuzz.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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
Removing graduation years from the education section of your résumé is another way to fuzz up your career length.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
"If you're driving in here, everything would be a fuzz to you on the notices because they are so small."
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
A nose peeked out—a tiny pink nose—and then two slanted-closed eyes, a forehead covered in downy fuzz, little ears still curled tight against its head.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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 Earle, Alice Morse
Their skin is thick with tight fuzzed hair, which makes it less amenable to bloodsucking insects like mosquitoes.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024
Mapplethorpe's skull-like face is gently fuzzed, slightly out of focus, as if a phantom hovering in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2016
Khamenei has fuzzed this commitment at the very moment it needs to become sharper.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2015
“I’m confident that the Chinese sat pics early on were deliberately fuzzed up to prevent revealing true resolution,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2014
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
Further fuzzing up the situation are reports that Kent was under FBI investigation for leaks at the time of his resignation.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2026
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
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
