grainy
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The grainy footage, which has no audio, is said to show her wearing a yellow shirt, a baseball cap and a backpack while browsing items, including Molly the bird.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Without technological help, departments were left working with partial descriptions taken from grainy surveillance footage of suspect vehicles, Rodriguez said.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
“We went off of a lot of super grainy images of a lot of people; that informed what everybody wore,” Mance says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
That was how things were until January 25, 2025, when the account uploaded a grainy video of Les Paul and Eddie Van Halen, taken from a 1988 special called “Les Paul & Friends.”
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Or in the case of Dada, that grainy, serious picture of him.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
The original is supposed to be from 1979 — post-“Halloween,” pre-“Friday the 13th” — so it has a grainier look, sleazier thrills and a fuller plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
Pictures produced by the Fairphone 4 were grainier and less attractive than shots taken with iPhones and other mainstream Android phones.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
The texture is slightly grainier than some of the other butters I tried, but I didn't mind it.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2022
The iPhone 12 Pro Max’s telephoto camera has a slightly longer reach the the 12 Pro’s, but it’s grainier in low light.
From The Verge ● Nov. 9, 2020
Its texture was slightly grainier than it should have been, which makes me think I may have beaten the whites a little too long.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Vibrant canary yellow and savoy blue jerseys that cut through even the grainiest television footage.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It’s a trek that puts Rodrigo in a reflective state, and Lee’s mood-infused film is tailored to appeal to the vintage taste of a Gen Z crowd that loves the grainiest of photo filters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
But he contributed more than some stunning plays that were captured on the grainiest of black-and-white film.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021
Styles had the grainiest voice in the group, which often reserved it to arrive just when the verse pushed into the chorus.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
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