Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smutch
Noun
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Moral stain aside, does anyone think such an injection of campus-style activism into the practical business of running the world's financial capital would actually benefit the median New Yorker?—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025 -
If your jute or sisal rug has a stain, skip the dish soap solutions.—
Jennifer Beck Goldblatt,
Architectural Digest,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Calling President Trump a dictator isn’t a smear, but an accurate reflection of his incendiary actions.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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But in 1895, a ruthless public smear campaign hinging on Wilde’s queerness led to the author’s imprisonment, outing, and eventual exile.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Wiping unsightly white smudges on your clothes with a sheet easily solves this wardrobe malfunction.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2025
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Just walking across them barefoot can leave smudges, and even clean shoes can leave visible marks.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This phenomenon involves cooler, heavier blobs of plasma that condense high above the Sun's surface and then plunge back down.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
27 Oct. 2025
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The most prosaic explanation is that Villarroel’s transients are simply artifacts in the photographic plates such as speckles of dust, blobs in the emulsion or even radioactive particles.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After a few minutes, blot the area and wash the item by hand.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Oct. 2025
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Mix 1 cup of baking soda with 2 cups of hydrogen peroxide and use a white cloth to apply it to the stain and blot gently.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
25 Oct. 2025
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In addition to winning Francesca to her cause, the episode also reveals that Fringilla Vigo is also acting as Yennefer’s mole, insinuating herself with Vilgefortz while passing information back to the sorceresses.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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To keep gophers and moles out, gardeners had to put their own screens under the ground to keep them from digging up to the plants.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, the 40-year-old 11-time world major marathon winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist, was with the lead pack coming off the Queensboro bridge at around the 17-mile mark before falling off slightly.—
Bette Canter,
Sportico.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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The 52 catches are the most ever by a UM true freshman — surpassing Ahmmon Richards’ mark of 49 set in the 2016 season — and are seven shy of tying Eddie Brown’s mark of 59 in the 1984 season for 10th all-time in Hurricanes history.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This ruling is a big splash as NASCAR and plaintiff teams 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports gear up for trial in Charlotte to punctuate a lawsuit in which 23XI and FRM assert that NASCAR is a monopoly.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Nov. 2025
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The trade deadline came and went for the Detroit Lions, and for a team that isn’t known for making in-season splashes, this was par for the course.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Smutch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smutch. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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