freckle
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“The doctor was looking at each freckle with a magnifying glass,” she wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
I can feel the backs of my knees burn and I can see my otherwise monochrome shoulders freckle if I’m outside for a bit too long.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
These Polynesian islands — a freckle, invisible on many maps — make up the world's fourth smallest nation, population around 12,000 and a land size of ten square miles.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022
Paris Tippett, 26, from Reading said she noticed a new freckle on her leg after prolonged sunbed use and was subsequently diagnosed with stage two melanoma.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022
Once my aunt found a freckle on her chin, at a spot that the almanac said predestined her for unhappiness.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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You want freckles and edges that lean just shy of too dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
Gigi is her age, 21, with tanned skin, green eyes, freckles, winged eyeliner and long black hair.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
Accessories—anything from shoelace charms to glitter freckles to decor for your decor—give consumers ways to update their look and express themselves at a fraction of the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
She was older, with light brown eyes and freckles, and living with friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
Ms. Solomon had freckles like mine, and short dark hair.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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Carolina Gelen’s beetroot focaccia is spring: shocking-pink dough rising on my counter, later freckled with crystalline shards of salt.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025
Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
But the glow of the freckled, big-eyed actor who so memorably played Marion Ravenwood has only grown stronger over time.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
“Then don’t do it,” he whispered back, kissing each freckled cheek.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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The animal’s body remained astoundingly intact through the eons, retaining even shreds of delicate, scale-studded skin and a freckling of pigment.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
Jupiter’s great red spot is visible at the 10 o’clock position; a freckling of white ovals—most distinct at eight and nine o’clock—likely indicate deep atmospheric storms.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2017
It is a freckling of snow on cobbled pavements and the golden light from a window on a dark evening that glows like a Russian icon on a museum wall.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017
Holocaust Memorial Museum stretched halfway down the block Wednesday, raindrops freckling the sidewalk, as Barbara Conroy and her teenage granddaughter, Molly Giguiere, inched toward the doors.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017
For once I was glad of the privacy of the deep sunbonnet that Mother made me wear to prevent freckling.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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