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He received the honor of a Journal stipple portrait in 1985, after he was pushed out of the company that he co-founded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Microscopic chasms forming a sea of conical jagged peaks stipple the surface of a material called black silicon.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Also known as acoustical stipple ceilings, they were once a popular choice for their ability to absorb sound and hide imperfections.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

I introduced a forehead piece to the existing Stage 3 look and added old-age stipple around the eyes, along with eyebrow hair pieces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024

He’s wearing the uniform of the Guardians, but his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing his forearms, tanned but with a stipple of dark hairs.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

And that is not even her breeding plumage, when her eyes turn aquamarine, with matching stipples around the edges, and the inside of her mouth turns cobalt blue.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

In one grouping, she experiments with iterative ways of filling the squares, or shading a given area with stripes and stipples.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

But it gets lost in much of the black-and-white coverage of circumstances that have at least a few stipples of gray.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2021

His globs and stipples and smears — seemingly brisk and impulsive, but painstakingly applied and endlessly revised — ravished.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

Stipp′ler, one who stipples: a coarse brush for stippling; Stipp′ling, stippled work of any kind.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Social-media users are savaging promotions depicting unnaturally regular greens, shrimp like O-rings, unhealthily slick noodles and stippled chicken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

In front of me, a sheer wall of stippled gneiss.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

Even broken by decades of war, Afghanistan is viewed as a prize, a vital strategic crossroads from ancient times onward, its mountains and valleys stippled with largely untapped mineral and energy resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

White throats and cheek patches shimmered above pale breast feathers stippled with black flecks.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The sun filtered through a parade of maple and ash beyond the trailhead, stippling the wildflowers below.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2021

Patients sign up online, paying an average of $600 each for a stippling of shots across their foreheads.”

From Fox News ● Jun. 4, 2020

Her tattoo skills have blossomed — she can draw life-like portraits on calves using a technique called stippling; a single tattoo of angel-like wings on a back can be made of millions of dots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

Compare stippling the pages with water spots, unable to put your arms down, with balancing an ashtray on the rim of the tub, unable to put one arm down.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2019

Artists will doubtless find more feeling and expression in the broad washes and splashes before us, than in the most careful stippling of Mr. Manton.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn