spatter
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“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
“Blood stain analysis, bullet analysis, blood spatter analysis. Those things.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023
For decades, organizations like the Innocence Project have worked to weed pseudoscience out of courts — microscopic hair analysis, blood spatter analysis and bite mark evidence have all been used to wrongly convict defendants.
From New York Times • May 15, 2023
Then he’d cleaned the spatter of rain and moisture from the floor of the refuse room, and made sure there were no scraps of rope or other signs of their presence.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Charlotte's Web
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