blotch

Rather than being the work of a single bacterial pathogen, bacterial blotch involves a diverse group of potentially harmful microorganisms, including previously overlooked species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Her zapping turns her entire head of hair — not just a streak — shocking white à la Jean Harlow, and leaves an oddly-appealing black blotch on her cheek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

I also had a little red blotch of skin, but as I said, my thighs rub together, so maybe it was nothing?

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2024

But the second image included a big blotch, a blast zone of disturbed dust radiating outward more than 10 miles that had not been in the first image.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Gum doesn’t blotch the sidewalks, it doesn't smell like pee, and there aren’t areas to avoid once the sun sets.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Elderly immigrants showed off injuries they claimed were caused by the noxious air: strange blotches on their skin, temples rubbed raw due to watery eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

“If it does easily, you may not need as much water. If it’s difficult to come out, or comes out in blotches, use the wet method.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

He leaped over the side and struggled toward shore, splashing through water covered with blotches of burning black oil.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

At least two other threatened species — the Gulf sturgeon and yellow blotched map turtle — also occupy the Pearl darter’s designated critical habitat and will benefit from the protections.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

An example of the founder effect is the cyclical dominance of three throat-color patterns in side- blotched lizards.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Altered taqpep genes were already known to cause blotched tabby patterns in cats, as well as king cheetahs’ unusually large spots and stripes.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2021

The material was loose, and blotched with whitish mold.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each variety, whatever its parentage may have been, retained all its characters perfect, and there was no streaking or blotching of the colours, as in the foregoing plants of crossed origin.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

The sulphurous fumes of the big smelter blotching the southern sky with saffron and coppery red clouds indicated that we were nearing Trail.

From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman