smudge
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“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
While we followed the police, we could see the boat – a thin black smudge on a milky sea – to our left.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025
I saw Trevor around the gym for months — scattered tattoos and black tank top with a cute smudge of climbing chalk on their ears.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 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
Her breath stopped and she peered to see the smudge better.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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