: characterized by dimness, indistinctness, or obscurity
the blurred names on the gravestones
: lacking clarity or sharpness : blurry
a blurred photograph
blurred vision
blurredly
adverb
I am being lifted into the air—and even as I pant and stare blurredly, limply, mindlessly, a map appears, of the dark ground where I ran …
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In 2022, a series of maladies (groin, Covid, blurred vision, and a wrist) limited him to 98 games.
—Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
On-screen, such appeals to the power of the theater — which Holder insists on highlighting by having Taffeta and the film’s various other characters at times be actors, at others audience members, always attentive to the blurred lines between them — ring rather hollow.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 23 June 2025
As always, balance is your superpower, so steer clear of relationship drama or blurred expectations, especially during the Jupiter-Neptune square on June 18.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 May 2025
And then there is the wider and thornier issue of the increasingly blurred lines between Trump the president and Trump the businessman, as many will point to this as yet another example of the president’s family using his political position for their own commercial benefit.
—Matt Slater, New York Times, 8 July 2025
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Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
On-screen, such appeals to the power of the theater — which Holder insists on highlighting by having Taffeta and the film’s various other characters at times be actors, at others audience members, always attentive to the blurred lines between them — ring rather hollow.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 23 June 2025
As always, balance is your superpower, so steer clear of relationship drama or blurred expectations, especially during the Jupiter-Neptune square on June 18.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 May 2025
And then there is the wider and thornier issue of the increasingly blurred lines between Trump the president and Trump the businessman, as many will point to this as yet another example of the president’s family using his political position for their own commercial benefit.
—Matt Slater, New York Times, 8 July 2025
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“Blurred.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blurred. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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