blotchy

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Besides causing flu-like symptoms, including high fever and blotchy, red rash, measles can cause serious long-term damage to the body’s immune system, weakening its ability to fight new infections.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2025

This is followed within days by a distinctive blotchy rash, which usually starts on the face and spreads to the rest of the body.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

But the whale’s skin was blotchy, and if it were a right whale, something would have been wrong.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

The temperature of the CMB varies ever so slightly across the sky, providing a blotchy snapshot of the universe at the moment neutral atoms formed, 380,000 years after the big bang.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 31, 2023

When she turns back to face me, there are no tears, but her face is red and blotchy.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse