as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a blurry image in the foreground of the photograph
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Recent Examples of blurry
The works made with the Developer look a bit like figures exceeding a slow shutter’s grasp: Prime Mover (1974) has black and white tones that have been smeared, as though this blurry work were trying to capture someone or someone who just wouldn’t stay still.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Others appear to have been digitized poorly, leaving them blurry, or are written in challenging handwriting.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Chicken legs, puffy faces and blurry vision Without gravity, fluids shift.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Symptoms include back pain, balance issues, blurry vision, dizziness, headaches, muscle weakness, numbness in the arms and legs, seizures and more.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Others appear to have been digitized poorly, leaving them blurry, or are written in challenging handwriting.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Chicken legs, puffy faces and blurry vision Without gravity, fluids shift.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Symptoms include back pain, balance issues, blurry vision, dizziness, headaches, muscle weakness, numbness in the arms and legs, seizures and more.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blurry
Adjective
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Maddox does not make vague threats toward people who run afoul of him.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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The administration has been more vague, however, on programs such as classes that teach Black history.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Deeper within the planet, though, the surface might be emanating a faint red, due to incandescence resulting from being baked by its star.—
Shi En Kim,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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Fore one, telescopes have difficulty distinguishing the faint light from a planet from the much brighter light emitted by its host star.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There are so many moments of hazy slow-motion, of dramatic music, the constant shallow depth-of-field camera work.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The recent Hubble image, which was shared online on March 17, also captures a nebula that casts a hazy blue-greenish shadow over part of the star cluster.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Blurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blurry. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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