as in obscuring
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
the view from the mountain's summit is often bedimmed by haze
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The irony is a bit hard to ignore — the very environment being modified to protect or maintain beaches was simultaneously obscuring the ecological processes happening just offshore.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026 -
And what’s a novelist but a fence, furnishing imaginary scenes with choice pieces of reality while obscuring their provenance?—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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Beyond color and exposure adjustments, the AI Assistant will sometimes enable an artificial bokeh effect too, blurring the background as in portrait mode.—
Dominic Preston,
The Verge,
23 June 2026
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To soften the look of this nostalgic floral, try blurring its edges to create an airbrushed effect.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
20 June 2026
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Today, the skies seem to be darkening once again.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
19 June 2026
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One brush fire from the summer storm then split into two, and the raging flames sent plumes of black smoke upward, darkening the skies for miles and fouling the air.—
Kairi Lowery,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
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And Hanceville’s fate is as murky as the fog that pours in at night, blotting out buildings and blackening the road ahead.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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These tungsten atoms would then condense on the slightly cooler inside of the glass bulb, blackening it and dimming the light over time.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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Guard what matters without shutting your heart or dimming your hope today.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
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Filmmaker mode again handles dark objects a bit better while not dimming the picture uncomfortably, even in its default settings.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
16 June 2026
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“Bedimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedimming. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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