freckle
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“The doctor was looking at each freckle with a magnifying glass,” she wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
I can feel the backs of my knees burn and I can see my otherwise monochrome shoulders freckle if I’m outside for a bit too long.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
These Polynesian islands — a freckle, invisible on many maps — make up the world's fourth smallest nation, population around 12,000 and a land size of ten square miles.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022
Paris Tippett, 26, from Reading said she noticed a new freckle on her leg after prolonged sunbed use and was subsequently diagnosed with stage two melanoma.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022
No roads cross it; ponds and lakes freckle its immensity.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
It's my freckles, I'm told, and having freckles puts me at higher risk of skin cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
You want freckles and edges that lean just shy of too dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
Gigi is her age, 21, with tanned skin, green eyes, freckles, winged eyeliner and long black hair.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
As the team worked, Tilly gained freckles and a few extra pounds so she wouldn’t look too slight for an action movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
A boy with curly hair and freckles rushes in like a messy whirlwind.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
If you ask Cirone which is his favorite, he will tell you the Gold Rush, a golden-green apple with a freckled skin, crisp crunch and rich, tart flavor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
But the glow of the freckled, big-eyed actor who so memorably played Marion Ravenwood has only grown stronger over time.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Now that I’m dressed, the hair totally works, and I’ve got the rosy cheeks thing and the smoky eye thing and the freckled shoulder thing all happening at once.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
The animal’s body remained astoundingly intact through the eons, retaining even shreds of delicate, scale-studded skin and a freckling of pigment.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
Jupiter’s great red spot is visible at the 10 o’clock position; a freckling of white ovals—most distinct at eight and nine o’clock—likely indicate deep atmospheric storms.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2017
It is a freckling of snow on cobbled pavements and the golden light from a window on a dark evening that glows like a Russian icon on a museum wall.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017
Holocaust Memorial Museum stretched halfway down the block Wednesday, raindrops freckling the sidewalk, as Barbara Conroy and her teenage granddaughter, Molly Giguiere, inched toward the doors.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017
For once I was glad of the privacy of the deep sunbonnet that Mother made me wear to prevent freckling.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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