blurry
Americanadjective
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blurrier,
comparative
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blurriest
superlative
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Nearly two years on, Caryn still has issues with her left eye, including some blurry vision and scarring.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Suddenly, it was blurry and her peripheral vision waned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Our experiments using incoherent production is like switching from a blurry image to a high-resolution microscope," Tapia Takaki said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 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
Spread in a blurry mountain across the face of the makeshift shrine at Tariq Johnson's murder site.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
"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
Lines between theatrical and small-screen movies have been blurring for years, with lockdown/the pandemic making them blurrier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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
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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