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Enjoy warm with a smear of jam or your favorite fruit preserves.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

A trio of rulings on Thursday refute this smear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

So, in spite of O’Leary’s concerted efforts to smear the protesters as “proxies” for the Chinese government, and to dismiss opposing arguments as “poo-poo,” Utah politicians sound quite different right now.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

Earlier this year, former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary defended the FDA’s decision to reject RP1 and personally backed Prasad, accusing the media of running a smear campaign against him.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

A smear of robin’s-egg blue showed beyond the rubble.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Researchers gently rub the parchment with a dry cytology brush, the same type of brush used for Pap smears.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

In an Instagram video, external, Sawalha said she had become "the target of an escalating campaign of smears, complaints, hostile media coverage and targeted calls to have me removed from Loose Women".

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

She tears into a warm baguette, smears it with chèvre and hands him a piece.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

HPV tests and Pap smears are critical tools to diagnose patients who might have an infection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

The fabric is stiff and stained a brown so deep it’s almost black, except for a few smears of green.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Lean and wet and smeared with grass, he introduces himself as Lincoln Hedberg from New Jersey.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Kyle Jamieson smeared three sixes in his unbeaten 38 and was left stranded when Robinson bowled Henry for his fourth Test five-for.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Often smeared on hot buttered toast, it tastes like a fishy, peppery paté, befitting the mock Latin name Osborn gave to it, Patum Peperium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

“It almost looks like Cheeto dust,” she said, “like somebody had Cheetos on their fingers and just smeared it on the landscape.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Gagging on the stench, he smeared his feet, shins and hands.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“Gray raindrops pattered listlessly on the kitchen window, obscuring the thin morning light” as Honor Wilson is found smearing “a dot of margarine across some toast.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Ramos said the audio was about smearing his work, adding "no Mexican authority took responsibility for that audio."

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

But when he discovers a beehive, he shares the honey with his fellow prisoners by smearing it over his body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

His ill-fated attempt to unmask a whistleblower he thought was smearing an old colleague, was seen by some – but not all – as evidence of fierce loyalty to his own troops.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025

He was smearing the oozing resin on the gourd.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry