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The school’s hiring was the primary subject of the faculty smear campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The congresswoman added that her relationship with the president is “100% professional,” and that any suggestion otherwise is an attempt to smear her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Piker, who has said he was raised Muslim but is non-practicing, called himself a victim of a "coordinated smear campaign" and Islamophobia.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Baldoni denied harassing Lively or orchestrating a smear campaign against her.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Gum Baby picked at a smear of sap on her pants.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

“I was just trying to get through a tray at a time,” she says, “but there were layers of smears that had come in overnight.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

So when Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen asked him about the Atlantic’s recent report regarding his alleged drinking on the job, Patel leapt at Van Hollen with a set of smears.

From Slate ● May 16, 2026

Red smears painted parts of the discarded drywall.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

One group inflated a giant disco ball, while another smeared themselves with body paint next to a line of rehearsing dancers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

The balm Mama smeared on my cuts and bruises made them feel a little better, though.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups have accused China of heavily underreporting the death toll from devastating flooding in border regions with Nepal, claims Beijing rejected as "malicious smearing and sensationalism".

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

He held a press conference outside his law office a few blocks away as rain fell, smearing reporters’ notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

Writing for the London Evening Standard one TV critic accused Big Brother's top executive Peter Bazalgette of "smearing excrement over our screens".

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

She was playing with her glass, running it along the table, smearing the water that had collected on it.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie