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
In one, a blurry figure stands on a golf green, bent at the waist to putt.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2025
The first blurry image shows a line scrawled on her chest.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
What is Father Jud Duplenticy’s body art, so blurry and indistinct?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
How come the only visual of the suspect is a blurry video when the campus is blanketed in surveillance cameras?
—Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2025
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The championship standard isn’t volleyed about in vague terms.—
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Washington’s presence there, however, gave the delegates confidence to endow the presidency with vague and expansive powers.—
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The program’s pulse felt faint, its identity slipping further with each loss.—
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The short uses stylized 3D and deadpan timing to explore routine, irritation and faint absurdity.—
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Although Jerry Garcia cast the longest shadow across the legend of the Dead with his dark, complexly melodic songs and his hazy, frayed vocals, Weir’s shadow was more translucent, melodically lighter and rhythmically astute.—
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What the new blueprint looks like is still hazy, and there isn’t just one way anymore.—
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“Blurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blurry. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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