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Cambridge called the claims against Arday a “vile smear campaign to undermine his credibility.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

They can take a generous smear of sauce, withstand several hours of compression and still emerge recognizably bread-shaped.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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

Atletico Madrid aimed the mocking dig at La Liga rivals Barcelona over their "smear campaign" in pursuit of Julian Alvarez.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

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

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

“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

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

Even when he smears soap lather over them, I don’t feel anything.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room - as well as butter "smeared around the top of a birthing pool".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

With the mayor’s vocal support, Mr. Bratton put broken-windows policing to work, arresting “squeegee men” who smeared dirty rags across motorists’ windshields, holding them hostage for a “contribution.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

We smeared the berries on our faces and pricked our fingers on a thorn.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

From Barron's ● May 14, 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

Years later, on the New York punk music circuit, she switched to eyeliner, because she loved getting sweaty and smearing the black streaks down her face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

You could get the magnet to start working again by smearing it with goat’s blood.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton