smudge
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The 22-year-old now runs his own business scrubbing every sheet metal curve and interior corner of a vehicle until there isn’t a smudge or crumb left.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In truth, there have been enough fingerprints on UCLA’s resurgence to leave countless smudge marks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
You can distort a timeline, smudge the facts, and leave others out to pursue one angle in favor of another, depending on your agenda.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
While we followed the police, we could see the boat – a thin black smudge on a milky sea – to our left.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
“Guess she wasn’t paying attention and the smudge pot tipped over. Next thing they knew, the kitchen was on fire.”
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Little else was known about the 30-40 day moult, until Fretwell spotted large brown smudges in satellite pictures from 2019-2025.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
It’ll leave little silver smudges like a disappointing eyeshadow.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
If smudges in the sky are your thing, sure, fine.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
“They told me to go on a computer, but the computers are dirty. People are touching those computers. You can see the smudges, the dark spots. Like they never clean them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
“No,” I mumbled, dabbing at my mascara with a tissue, trying to wipe away the smudges before I went out onto the arena floor.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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
"Intensity mapping is like viewing the same scene through a smudged plane window: you get a blurrier picture, but you capture all the light and not just the brightest spots."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
Expect a lot of smudged mascara as the pair receive a send-off to remember.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
Can’t they be smudged in the developing process or ruined if you don’t rewind the roll just right?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Two of the new settlers come straggling into the fort, dragging wooden clubs, their faces smudged with soot.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
The two women move around the room, burning herbs and shaking shamanic rattles while singing and chanting in a purification ritual known as "smudging".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
That may not stop people from using sage or smudging it; I also have the sage I was gifted years ago by my best friend.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024
This pretty kit contains mountain sage, frankincense, myrrh and white copal resin; a Selenite stick; crystals and a palo santo stick for smudging.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Researchers believe these early artists selected charcoal because it was the perfect medium, ideal for the smudging and blending techniques used in cave paintings.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 4, 2023
It rose swirling off a hundred distant fires, its sooty fin gers smudging out the stars.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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