blurry
Americanadjective
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blurrier,
comparative
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blurriest
superlative
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As a result, incoming light focuses in front of the retina rather than directly on it, making distant objects appear blurry.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even so, as the line between investing and gambling grows increasingly blurry, it’s understandable that some consumers might get confused.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The test results appear in blurry tables in pdfs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
But the line between frauds and scams can be blurry in practice, according to a February letter that Lillie’s lawyer at the time sent to multiple Senate committees to describe her allegations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The line between fact and fiction was so blurry it was hard to see at all.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
"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
In the NCAA’s era of free player movement and NIL payments, the lines that separate college from professional sports have never been blurrier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
These cones are also responsible for sharpness of vision, so a cat’s eyesight is blurrier, despite their superior low-light vision.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
Perhaps there is no blurrier line between stage and crowd than at contemporary rap concerts, where some of the most famous performers in the world routinely fling themselves into their audiences.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Zooming in on it only makes it blurrier.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
“You could see every crater, you could see every color, from something that we only had the blurriest understanding of before,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
This has been the blurriest of years, after all — a year when most of us saw new movies at home, not in theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2020
The realm of “social spam” and the quantified audience is the blurriest of these—where fairly acceptable and established methods of getting attention and audience management may begin to shade into spam.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2013
A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was collegial and interdisciplinary, with only the blurriest lines distinguishing the individual researchers’ responsibilities.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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