as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
I can't describe him; all I saw was a blear figure for an instant
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as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
her image was bleared, as if I were staring at it through a watery lens
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blear
Adjective
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Lewis previously shared a vague post on social media after Del Rio's firing was initially reported in October.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026 -
By contrast, Paramount offers only a vague promise to use tech from Papa Larry Ellison’s Oracle to reshape the creaky Paramount+ into something bigger and better.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Thick plumes of black smoke obscured the sky over Puerto Vallarta.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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During his return trip, the subject tried to obscure the camera with foliage.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Keep in mind that the 90-percent illuminated moon will also brighten the sky, making faint planets like Uranus harder to spot.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
23 Feb. 2026
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Telling stories, voicing the worst, questioning any and all who will understand and listen, who may have stories of their own to tell, is where the faintest glimmer of healing begins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The video has been almost completely blurred except for the outside of the building and images of the stands.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Pages of documents on the images appeared to have been blurred.—
Dan Mangan,Leslie Josephs,Spencer Kimball,CJ Haddad,Justin Papp,Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The laws around songs being used at political rallies are hazy and realistically the most a musician or songwriter can do is demand for the use to cease, although the user in question seems to be under little legal obligation to comply.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2026
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That all of this is set around a rather hazy, cataclysmic time that gets relegated to the side lends it even more of a haunting power that grabs hold of you.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
Verb
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As Europe's political climate darkens against refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants, with governments including that of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni focusing resources on limiting new arrivals, Milan is taking a stand for a different approach.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2026
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Look out for the dark forms of Mare Crisium and Mare Fecunditatis darkening the sunlit wedge of Earth's satellite, which formed when ancient lava flows flooded networks of impact craters before hardening many millions of years ago.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Though both groups dimmed their lights three hours before bed, no other sleep or eating adjustments were required.—
Julia Sullivan,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
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And strikes alone cannot kill Iran’s expert personnel or dim its ambitions to one day build a nuclear weapon.—
Nancy A. Youssef,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Blear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blear. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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