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speckle

[spek-uhl] / ˈspɛk əl /


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Managing speckle is somewhat similar to managing cloud cover.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

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

As cancellations increasingly speckle a busy fall concert calendar, the team behind Day In Day Out, Seattle’s first major music festival since the pandemic, was dealt a last-minute blow.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Hundreds of firefighters raced across miles and miles of forest land, often outnumbering the populations of the small towns that speckle southern Oregon.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

The sky above them was stormy, and as they sailed closer, rain began to speckle the surface of the sea.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

This organization gives rise to unique pH profiles within nucleoli, which they measured and compared with the pH of nearby non-nucleolar condensates including nuclear speckles and Cajal bodies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

People in the stands held their phones up, creating a sea of star-like speckles in the crowd.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

Others showed mere speckles of damage visible among streaks of healthy, red-stained cells.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023

While eggs from the store usually come in a choice of brown or white, with a backyard flock you can have eggshell colors in blues and greens, chocolate brown, or covered in speckles.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

A half-dozen kites were flying high, speckles of bright yellow, red, and green against the gray sky.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

As I approached the site on my tour bus—the only sanctioned way to visit—hundreds of locked red doors protecting the grottoes came into view, speckled across a sun-bleached cliff face more than a mile long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

For decades, L.A.’s hazy blue days and golden pink dusks have given way to nights speckled with golden orange, where amber streetlights twinkle across hills, valleys and coastal plain like stars in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

You wait until the bananas are nearly gone — soft, speckled, with that distinct on-the-edge-of-death banana smell — and turn them into something new.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

While they were having dessert, Bess asked, "Did you hear about the brown and white speckled pony Ms. Waters found in her garden yesterday?"

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

The towns speckling the Columbia River basin have long ridden the ebbs and flows of far-off markets: volatile crop prices, changes in the livestock trade, pressure on the lumber industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

If Neutraface starts speckling the homes and fences around your neighborhood, your rent might soar soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Such graffiti, once speckling the city, has all but disappeared in Bukele’s efforts to erase any trace of the gangs.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Soon after European astronomers developed the first telescopes at the start of the 17th century, they observed dark spots speckling the Sun’s surface.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022

Maybe that's where there is money falling from the sky, diamonds speckling the sidewalks.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson




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