smudge
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I literally drove to the tattoo shop on Hollywood Boulevard with my arm out the window because I’m so clumsy and I didn’t want to smudge it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The 22-year-old now runs his own business scrubbing every sheet metal curve and interior corner of a vehicle until there isn’t a smudge or crumb left.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
I got a few distant glimpses during the first few years I lived here, a gray-green smudge on the horizon.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
At church services across the country, clergy members will smudge crosses on parishioners’ foreheads, murmuring, “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Osh rubbed a smudge of paint off the back of his hand.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
It’ll leave little silver smudges like a disappointing eyeshadow.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
With unapologetic brio, Tortorici, cinematographer Massimiliano Kuveiller and editor Marco Costa empty out their tool kit of angles, splits, tracks, smudges, zooms, smashes, jumps, needle drops, montages and text cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
If smudges in the sky are your thing, sure, fine.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 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
If you look close, you can see the smudges where he erased a word or two and rewrote it.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
They’re the smart choice, even if you come across a slightly smudged crystal ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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
Expect a lot of smudged mascara as the pair receive a send-off to remember.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
My foot accidentally smudged the diagram of the scout fly and I shuddered.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
That may not stop people from using sage or smudging it; I also have the sage I was gifted years ago by my best friend.
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
On another, Djokovic tumbled behind the baseline, smudging his red shirt, blue shorts and skin with the rust-colored clay.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
She swabbed at the counter with her thumb, smudging the granite.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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