smudge
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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
The coolest collegiate women’s basketball player on the planet routinely produces plays so picturesque, every smudge is briefly met with a pained annoyance that inspires her to retrieve the brush and swirl anew.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 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
On a map of the United States it is an incidental smudge of green, but on foot the scale of it is colossal.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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