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speckle

[spek-uhl] / ˈspɛk əl /


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Imaging RPE cells with AO-OCT comes with new challenges, including a phenomenon called speckle.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

On this bright March afternoon, hundreds of colorful wooden fishing boats speckle the crystalline water below as we sail toward Hon Thom Island.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2022

It is restless and searching, continually morphing in shape, an abstract paintbrush swoosh one moment, a speckle of raindrops the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2020

They say the City is a place where diamonds speckle the sidewalk.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson