smudge
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The 22-year-old now runs his own business scrubbing every sheet metal curve and interior corner of a vehicle until there isn’t a smudge or crumb left.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
In truth, there have been enough fingerprints on UCLA’s resurgence to leave countless smudge marks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
While we followed the police, we could see the boat – a thin black smudge on a milky sea – to our left.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Nhamo rubbed her eyes; the smudge didn’t go away.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
One especially useful touch for travelers: the spa offers quick-drying traditional polishes, making it easier to get back to sightseeing without worrying about smudges.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
With unapologetic brio, Tortorici, cinematographer Massimiliano Kuveiller and editor Marco Costa empty out their tool kit of angles, splits, tracks, smudges, zooms, smashes, jumps, needle drops, montages and text cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
If smudges in the sky are your thing, sure, fine.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
And the dark smudges of exhaustion below Kravchenko's eyes made him look like he was wearing stage paint.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024
She's colors and candy; I'm pencils and smudges.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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
Heyward co-hosted a fundraiser with his wife last week where Pratt was smudged with sage before standing in front of a giant amethyst geode to address about 125 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
"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
Expect a lot of smudged mascara as the pair receive a send-off to remember.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
My eyeliner isn’t smudged, and my lip gloss is still intact.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
The two women move around the room, burning herbs and shaking shamanic rattles while singing and chanting in a purification ritual known as "smudging".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
Harrell’s proposal preserves the basic framework of the urban village strategy, while at the same time renaming them, smudging their boundaries and targeting additional areas for development.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
While this wellness practice has been popularized by wellness gurus and witchy social media influencers, smudging sage originated with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024
Researchers believe these early artists selected charcoal because it was the perfect medium, ideal for the smudging and blending techniques used in cave paintings.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 4, 2023
Then she smiled and brushed Sefia’s cheek, smudging her with dirt.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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