smudge
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On Christmas the following year, he noticed what he thought was a smudge on his glasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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
But, against the odds, he found what he hoped for - a brown smudge on the white ice sheet.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
The coolest collegiate women’s basketball player on the planet routinely produces plays so picturesque, every smudge is briefly met with a pained annoyance that inspires her to retrieve the brush and swirl anew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
He leaves a smudge of snot on the canvas.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
It’ll leave little silver smudges like a disappointing eyeshadow.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
If smudges in the sky are your thing, sure, fine.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
There are brushstrokes and smudges, as if the world were realized in pastels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
I splash cold water on my face, which smudges my eyeliner and mascara.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
In response to the Palace disputing his account, Earl Spencer, who shares his first name with the King, said: "They've sort of smudged that one, haven't they? They've said that recollections may vary."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
"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
The workers’ uniforms are smudged with stains earned underneath a car, wrench in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
Two of the new settlers come straggling into the fort, dragging wooden clubs, their faces smudged with soot.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
For Native people, smudging is the ceremony used for spiritual cleansing or blessing, but not all Indigenous people even use sage to smudge.
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
Inside is the Play God power-up, blue and beautiful, its swirling clouds smudging underneath my fingertips.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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