smudge
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In truth, there have been enough fingerprints on UCLA’s resurgence to leave countless smudge marks.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
I got a few distant glimpses during the first few years I lived here, a gray-green smudge on the horizon.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 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
She remembers one such occasion: "The producers made me put water on my eyes and smudge my mascara… and made it look like I was crying. That was a total set-up."
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
“Every time Lurvy slops him, the food runs down around the ears. Then it dries and forms a crust. He also has a smudge on one side where he lays in the manure.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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