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A blood spatter report and a court order received by the family this month have reignited their hopes that criminal proceedings could commence in the Spanish courts.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“We don’t have photographs, site plans, measurements, the recovery of projectiles, blood spatter analysis, all of those things we would normally get at a crime scene.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

In Alameda County, inspectors found weld spatter waste, which sometimes contains copper, along with paint mix, used wipes with primer and other hazardous waste dumped into ordinary trash containers at Tesla’s Fremont factory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

A blood spatter analyst was not brought to the scene, and instead the authorities relied on photographs that many outside experts characterized as inadequate.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

I ask as raindrops start to spatter my face.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

But the big challenge is that metal parts created with additive manufacturing have defects -- like pores, or "voids," rough surfaces and large spatters -- that significantly compromise the finished part's reliability and durability.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

It's hard to look fashionable in a Christmas jumper covered in mince pie crumbs and spatters of mulled wine, so we're not here to make anybody feel bad this festive season.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

The forensic minutiae are duly intriguing: Blood spatters are closely analyzed, timetables meticulously reconstructed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Bloodstain-pattern analysis is a forensic discipline whose practitioners regard the drops, spatters and trails of blood at a crime scene as clues that can sometimes be used to reconstruct and even reverse-engineer the crime itself.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

He is covered with Parisian soot and grime, overlaid with splatters and spatters of paint: ochre, brick red, orange, lemon chrome, cobalt blue, green, black, zinc white.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Here soaring horns sit atop dripping, spattered masses, the high polish and sharp points of the parabolic shapes complementing the curvaceous, organically decorated bases below.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Llera, who has covered crime for more than three decades, smoked a cigarette while he snapped photographs of a taxi spattered with blood.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

The little man was there: a soggy spectacle on a pale and spattered horse.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

You’ll also hear a larger, darker woofling from the tailpipes, and phlegmy, spattering cough as the rpm fall off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

It’s a veritable Jackson Pollock spattering of woes.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

A spattering of anti-war protests was quickly stamped out.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

And whether a ring, a miniature moon, or some other scenario, spattering our planet with space rocks may have created conditions that set up what we think of as “modern” oceans.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024

I think of the note I found, of the press of his nibbed pen hard enough to send flecks of ink spattering as he wrote my name.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black