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Piker, who has said he was raised Muslim but is non-practicing, called himself a victim of a "coordinated smear campaign" and Islamophobia.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Baldoni denied harassing Lively or orchestrating a smear campaign against her.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

In May, they made a series of social media posts brutally mocking Barca's pursuit of their player to millions of followers, saying they were victims of a "smear campaign".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

They can take a generous smear of sauce, withstand several hours of compression and still emerge recognizably bread-shaped.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

The sun dropped behind the hills in back of me, leaving a red smear on the sky, which slowly turned blade.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

He smears the masticated leaf all over Haye’s body, and then packs it with mossy soil.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Lean and wet and smeared with grass, he introduces himself as Lincoln Hedberg from New Jersey.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room - as well as butter "smeared around the top of a birthing pool".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

Often smeared on hot buttered toast, it tastes like a fishy, peppery paté, befitting the mock Latin name Osborn gave to it, Patum Peperium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

It looked almost smeared and was stained all shades of pink and white and red.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

He held a press conference outside his law office a few blocks away as rain fell, smearing reporters’ notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Years later, on the New York punk music circuit, she switched to eyeliner, because she loved getting sweaty and smearing the black streaks down her face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

Then she dipped her hand into the bowl and began smearing a bready goo onto my ankle.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell