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blurry

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


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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

“Beard’s” blurry cover photo, which shows her shaved head and slightly doleful eyes, “captures exactly what I was trying to portray with the music,” she adds.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The bank is in Utah, and her signature, she says, appears blurry and lifted from elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

People post photos old and new, blurry and clear, and ask for edits ranging from “Please remove my ex” to “Give me long hair” to “Make this look like a professional headshot.”

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

I’m in a gigantic cave, but everything around me is blurry.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

"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

The ancient astrological chart has now become even blurrier.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2024

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

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

It was collegial and interdisciplinary, with only the blurriest lines distinguishing the individual researchers’ responsibilities.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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