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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

She smiles, her lips a weak yellow smear across her face.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Ingerson posted on social media that there had been a "two-year long campaign of bullying, lies, rumours and smears designed to stop my candidacy".

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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

September 13 Neighbors Eggs explode like smears of snot on our front door.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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

Just to be sure, though, the soldiers cracked two raw chicken eggs on his head and smeared the contents over his body, a traditional method for neutralizing the supernatural.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Héctor found a boy to chase him around a tree, and Alicia crawled to a sand puddle where she and other toddlers smeared one another with the fine red dirt.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

She added West was also smearing her make-up on her face "in a way that just felt wrong".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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

Mullin did not apologize for his remarks and instead accused Paul of smearing his character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

They flew into their husbands, oblivious to the greasy coal smearing their clothes.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam