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Discover LudwigThe phrase "blur the truth" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to make something less clear or distinct, especially in regards to the truth. Example: The politician's statement was designed to blur the truth and manipulate public perception.
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Those damn statistics may blur the truth, but the latter is not the credential of a genuine superstar.
The memoir left by brother Henry and other 19th-century family tributes tended to blur the truth about Austen's attitudes, interests and awareness.
She had found ways to blur the truth over the years: she would say Lydia was her first child, not her seventh, or she would say Lydia was staying with her godparents, not a foster family.
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But nostalgia has a way of blurring the truth.
Veterans sometimes blurred the truth to bring more credit to their units.
Mr. Putin did condemn the "cynical lies that have blurred the truth about the Katyn shootings," adding, however, that "it would also be a lie and manipulation to place the blame for these crimes on the Russian people".
The national memorial site survived decades of the Soviet propaganda machine which tried to obliterate the name from maps and history books, often deliberately blurring the truth.
Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Center similarly cautioned that the bill could "blur the historical truths regarding the assistance the Germans received from the Polish population during the Holocaust," though it agreed that the term "Polish death camps" was a historical misrepresentation.
These tactics are clearly effective as they serve to blur the line between truth and non-truth.
Matthew Holmes, who has been moderating Guardian comments for a year, puts it down to a toxic mix of anti-immigration rhetoric that has long been vocalised online, and those who employ tactics to blur the lines between truth and reality.
You report the author Gay Talese as having said he believes it is unacceptable for an author or publisher to present as nonfiction a work that includes any composite or fictional characters or made-up events or that otherwise blur the lines between truth and fiction.
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