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flyspeck

[flahy-spek] / ˈflaɪˌspɛk /




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The 17-year-old best friends are neighbors in a flyspeck California town in the Mojave Desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

More procedural requirements mean more chances for a judge to flyspeck some aspect of rulemaking.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2023

The level of funding required would be a flyspeck in the military budget, not an endless boondoggle.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2018

He avoids big cities and opts instead to meander through “the Black Belt, the Delta, the backwoods, the flyspeck towns.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2017

But to me his ambitions seemed futile, and the whole of Long Island less important than a flyspeck on the map of the world.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson


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