1
as in stains
to make dirty
a tablecloth daubed with too many spills to ignore any longer
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2
as in smears
to rub an oily or sticky substance over
he begins his nightly transformation into a circus clown by daubing greasepaint on his face
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Noun
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By 2 payouts and previous drawings here.—
Jay Cannon,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While moderate by Western standards, such sentiments remain anathema to Thailand’s ruling elite, and judging by the fate of the progressive movement’s previous leadership, Natthaphong knows any intention to reform this paramount institution paints an enormous target on his back.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Fiscal policy paints a similar picture.—
Bob Haber,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Highlights include intimate portraits by Nan Goldin and a monochrome image of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe during their hedonistic era in New York.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Her posts around this time were more often portraits of the outsized characters that dominate conservative politics than about actual policy.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Dim sunlight smudges skies for only a few hours in the depth of winter.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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This finicky, formal style coats every page of the novel with an impressively even surface that doesn’t serve any deeper spiritual purpose.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Simmer until mixture coats the back of a spoon, 1 minute.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The approach unites spatial and temporal representations of flow patterns, which traditional methods often treat separately.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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There are poems where bunnies and deer are characters, where fishsticks think and the moon speaks, where the speaker and representations of the speaker interact.—
Literary Hub
August 25,
Literary Hub,
25 Aug. 2025
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This viral hit was a long time coming for the pair, who joined the SNL writers’ room in 2022 and developed a reputation for crafting sketches that jump on pop-culture trends with a fluency in girls-and-gays online fanspeak.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Nwodim, who joined SNL in season 44, made headlines during the 50th season in April during one of her Weekend Update sketches.—
Anna Chan,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Uckotter’s eerie depictions of attics, slip dresses, and toys calls to mind the cinematic worlds created by David Lynch.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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If the only way this film distinguishes itself is in its ability to humanize and complicate flat depictions and erasure of Saudi women, that is no small feat.—
Beandrea July,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Daubs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daubs. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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