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bedaubs

verb

present tense third-person singular of bedaub

as in smears

to rub an oily or sticky substance over the toddler delightedly bedaubed herself with her mother's makeup

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Darker smears around the crater’s rim contain surface rocks and lunar dust called regolith previously altered by solar winds, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation over an extended period of time.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
The atmosphere works on them a little bit harder and reduces their strength and smears them a little bit more.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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Also, if one coats the surface of a daguerreotype with a layer of gold, the colors shift more to the red side of the spectrum.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026
Mixing the flour with cold butter first coats the flour’s proteins, impeding the interaction between the water and the flour and reducing gluten development.

— Melissa Weller, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026

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Pro Football Reference paints a more positive picture (15 of 21 for 136).

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Shapira paints a picture of a kinder, gentler war, where technology takes soldiers away from the trenches and from the tanks, to a chair behind a screen.

— Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 21 Oct. 2026

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