smudge

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

The hit was a small smudge on Bruins ace Taylor Tinsley’s line, finishing with two strikeouts and three hits across the five innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

But, against the odds, he found what he hoped for - a brown smudge on the white ice sheet.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

She wipes a smudge of dirt from Marion’s nose and scrubs lipstick from my teeth with her finger.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

With unapologetic brio, Tortorici, cinematographer Massimiliano Kuveiller and editor Marco Costa empty out their tool kit of angles, splits, tracks, smudges, zooms, smashes, jumps, needle drops, montages and text cards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

If smudges in the sky are your thing, sure, fine.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024

Gregory squirmed, but Candace wouldn't let up, pressing at his face like she was trying to rub smudges off of fresh sneakers, getting the creases of his nose and the corners of his mouth.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

The air, amber-hued and treacle-thick, is smudged under a blanket of smog that has spilled across international borders – to Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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

"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

Instead of a funhouse mirror of what could be, it’s merely a smudged reflection of what is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

Her face, though smudged, was delicate, elfin, with high cheekbones.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Harrell’s proposal preserves the basic framework of the urban village strategy, while at the same time renaming them, smudging their boundaries and targeting additional areas for development.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

While this wellness practice has been popularized by wellness gurus and witchy social media influencers, smudging sage originated with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024

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

She swabbed at the counter with her thumb, smudging the granite.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng