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fuzz

[fuhz] / fʌz /


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Peach fuzz and similar hairs are especially abundant around the mouths and ears of both humans and mice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Removing graduation years from the education section of your résumé is another way to fuzz up your career length.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The fire sequences alone, captured in the hellish fuzz of Pål Ulvik Rokseth’s cinematography, are pinnacles of this practical-meets-digital-effects discipline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

I put my hand up to feel the shape of my skull beneath the fuzz.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Jones and Corden explained that the idea was for the tape to play and just as viewers brace for the big reveal, the footage fuzzes out and jams.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

That fuzzes up the rationale for being restrictive about what can happen near one but not the other.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

The silkscreen process fuzzes the scene, while a mechanically produced grid interrupts any easy perceptions of naturalism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016

Musically, it's hardly unfamiliar – weeping Americana, backed with fuzzes of electric guitar and organ that slide in and out of focus, discomfiting and discombobulating – but expertly done.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2013

"You've done a deal more to them fuzzes than what you have to me, seemin'ly," she said.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

The faces of these supposedly brave men are more fuzzed out than Bigfoot in that famous footage from 1967.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

Their skin is thick with tight fuzzed hair, which makes it less amenable to bloodsucking insects like mosquitoes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 24, 2024

Khamenei has fuzzed this commitment at the very moment it needs to become sharper.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2015

What makes the record is the great R&B groove: a chunky, chugging drone, with a fuzzed, dizzy guitar line descending over it.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2014

She should have realized that, but her anxiety to get the money and get going had fuzzed her common sense.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

Showing packed shelves celebrates that, while fuzzing the books to make them unreadable also dissolves any preconceptions they contain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

A new system of fuzzing out some data to protect the privacy of respondents could further complicate attempts to assess the survey’s accuracy at smaller geographic levels.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

Sheets of sand whirled across the canal, graying the horizon and cutting visibility like static fuzzing a TV screen.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2021

It's not an "immersive" experience, in the way of giant-screen IMAX, but it’s an intensely personal and absorbing one, with the world around you fuzzing away into the background.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2012

I listened with growing uneasiness to the conversation fuzzing away to a whisper.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison


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