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blurry

[blur-ee] / ˈblɜr i /
ADJECTIVE
hazy
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Antonyms
STRONGEST


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Instead of being positioned before crisp backgrounds like static dioramas, they’re backed by blurry freeze frames that yearn to be in motion.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

While controversy surrounds the embarrassingly blurry line between college football and the National Football League, our culture needs to take a moment to commend and steward the glorious tradition of high-school football.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Glasses or contact lenses can correct blurry vision, but severe myopia also raises the risk of serious eye problems later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

Even so, as the line between investing and gambling grows increasingly blurry, it’s understandable that some consumers might get confused.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Her lips had taken on a greenish tinge—or was that just Frank’s blurry vision?

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

"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

In the NCAA’s era of free player movement and NIL payments, the lines that separate college from professional sports have never been blurrier.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

These cones are also responsible for sharpness of vision, so a cat’s eyesight is blurrier, despite their superior low-light vision.

From National Geographic Jan. 2, 2024

His departure from Mostly Mozart, though, was blurrier.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2023

Zooming in on it only makes it blurrier.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

“You could see every crater, you could see every color, from something that we only had the blurriest understanding of before,” he said.

From New York Times Jul. 23, 2021

This has been the blurriest of years, after all — a year when most of us saw new movies at home, not in theaters.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2020

The realm of “social spam” and the quantified audience is the blurriest of these—where fairly acceptable and established methods of getting attention and audience management may begin to shade into spam.

From Scientific American Jun. 20, 2013

A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truth was, those moments after she’d eaten the strange fruit were blurriest of all, sort of like a dream, but...there was one thing...Her cheeks burned.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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