fuzz
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"They're much less hairy than other pigs - Rana had ginger fuzz when she was born, but that's gone now," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Peach fuzz and similar hairs are especially abundant around the mouths and ears of both humans and mice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I’m Actually Kinda Famous” sneers and taunts a portrayal of fame over synths, and “Cannibalism!” is wrapped in youthful desire and garage rock fuzz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
There had been a little rain and a fuzz of miserly grass had started up.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Jones and Corden explained that the idea was for the tape to play and just as viewers brace for the big reveal, the footage fuzzes out and jams.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
That fuzzes up the rationale for being restrictive about what can happen near one but not the other.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
The silkscreen process fuzzes the scene, while a mechanically produced grid interrupts any easy perceptions of naturalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
Musically, it's hardly unfamiliar – weeping Americana, backed with fuzzes of electric guitar and organ that slide in and out of focus, discomfiting and discombobulating – but expertly done.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2013
This became now somewhat uneven and irregular in appearance, and full of knots and fuzzes which were picked out with hand-tweezers by burlers before it was fulled or milled, as it was sometimes called.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
The faces of these supposedly brave men are more fuzzed out than Bigfoot in that famous footage from 1967.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Their skin is thick with tight fuzzed hair, which makes it less amenable to bloodsucking insects like mosquitoes.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024
After all, months of Slack huddles and Zoom meetings have fuzzed the boundaries between work and home, not carved them with a scalpel.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
Theoretically, Funkadelic immerse themselves in fuzzed guitar freak-outs, while Parliament tilt towards the dancefloor, but much of First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate, although released as Funkadelic, could easily be Parliament material.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2016
She should have realized that, but her anxiety to get the money and get going had fuzzed her common sense.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Showing packed shelves celebrates that, while fuzzing the books to make them unreadable also dissolves any preconceptions they contain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
A new system of fuzzing out some data to protect the privacy of respondents could further complicate attempts to assess the survey’s accuracy at smaller geographic levels.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Three others play double Dutch, framed from below, the blues of their jeans and tees fuzzing into the sky overhead.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
It's not an "immersive" experience, in the way of giant-screen IMAX, but it’s an intensely personal and absorbing one, with the world around you fuzzing away into the background.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2012
Tam smiles back, love fuzzing all over his Noise.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
