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fuzz

[fuhz] / fʌz /


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Liberty Mutual worked with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, reviewing six characters and over 160 ad concepts, before settling on the final fuzz ball, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

These hairs resemble the fine, short, light colored vellus hairs that cover much of the human body, commonly known as peach fuzz.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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

"If you're driving in here, everything would be a fuzz to you on the notices because they are so small."

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025

He had Jason's same brown face, but with a peach fuzz mustache, and even longer Iocs.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

"You've done a deal more to them fuzzes than what you have to me, seemin'ly," she said.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

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 looked around, her eyes and mind still fuzzed with sleep.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

Further fuzzing up the situation are reports that Kent was under FBI investigation for leaks at the time of his resignation.

From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2026

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

His efforts invite you deeper into the medium as a physical discipline while fuzzing the boundaries that separate it from other forms of pictorial expression.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2011

I listened with growing uneasiness to the conversation fuzzing away to a whisper.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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