blurry
Americanadjective
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blurrier,
comparative
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blurriest
superlative
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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
People post photos old and new, blurry and clear, and ask for edits ranging from “Please remove my ex” to “Give me long hair” to “Make this look like a professional headshot.”
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
Vision issues are a distinctive red flag, particularly blurry vision, trouble looking at bright lights, and in some cases complete blindness.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Immediately, the chicken disappeared, and in its place was a wet piece of paper, a blurry painting of a chicken on it.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
"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
“I get more work the blurrier I am. If I’m featured, I’m not on that show again, unless it’s as the same character.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 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
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
The truth was, those moments after she’d eaten the strange fruit were blurriest of all, sort of like a dream, but...there was one thing...Her cheeks burned.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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