smeary

• “My continued doubts about the Nikon 10-24 regard the "smeary" corners at wider focal lengths on most, but not all, images I've seen.”

  News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

• “Place of Origin: Hebei, China (Mainland) copper wire recycling plant: used to extract the wire and make the wires into granula. copper wire recycling plant: specially used to process the automobile electricity route, the communication electric cable line and each kind of smeary mixed material electric cable line.”

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• “Through the smeary glass, Cara could just make out the neat white shutters of her own house across the street.”

  Simon & Schuster: Choker

• “The streets were smeary with neon rivulets, and a steam-haze rose from hot pavement.”

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• “Legs at 0.14 do seem pale and I think the call sounds like a deep nasal laugh : so I'll go for the species named after German zoologist Karl Michahelles.and petemoulton said:One other thing: the red gonydeal spot is kind of smeary, and seems to extend a bit onto the upper mandible.”

  The Guardian: Mystery bird: yellow-legged gull, Larus michahellis

• “I mean, sometimes things like electrons are point-sized, and sometimes “smeary”, depending on who is doing the describing.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?

• “I managed four of the five we set -- a 5.7 (Crinkle Monster, which had me nearly crying I was so scared -- did I mention how much I hate outdoor climbing?) with a big crank around an overhang, smeary feet and underclings, two easyish ones on the slab at the right end, and a 5.5 on the left end which was sort of festooned with cobwebs in the crevices.”

  i nom, therefor i am.

• “Is it already a big blur, a fading Polaroid, a smeary dreamscape of pain and wonder and random celebrity deaths?”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011

• “Setting dancing figures - dancing in all manners, from ballroom to ballet to American Bandstand - inside strange, smeary landscape spaces, unspecific except for the spectacular, even apocalyptic explosions that silhouette (and sometimes surround) the dancers, Carson imbues her pictures with a frightening energy.”

  The Huffington Post: Blague d'art: Newstalgia

• “I beckon her to the window, a wide glass wall, the sun a smeary ball of orange, melting, splintering into canals, glinting off the byways and eddies and cross-running tides of the lagoon, light thrown awry, refracted, diamonds tossed across a fractured jigsaw of bluish green.”

  Fictionaut: Peggy Guggenheim Visits her Favorite Question

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