stippled
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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
The landscape of the ancient Maya is stippled with ruins whose names are unknown to scholars and whose hieroglyphic inscriptions mention scores of places the locations of which are now lost.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
He applies a lacquer thinner to the stencil to partially dissolve it, thus yielding a stippled image.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
Most of his hair had fallen out, revealing a lumpy scalp stippled with moles.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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