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
Mejia also said that he saw what appeared to be blood spatter on Grossman’s vehicle, but that he did not have the material analyzed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
In the defense’s defense, there isn’t strong physical evidence—blood spatter on clothing, fingerprints or footprints, or a definitive murder weapon—tying Alex Murdaugh to the killings.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2023
Prosecutors said at a December hearing that there could be problems with the blood spatter work but asked to huddle with investigators.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
I ask as raindrops start to spatter my face.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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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
She sees spiders in high corners and even fleas jumping up in the air—pah! pah! pah!—like little spatters of hot oil.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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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
On one residential street, two machines about 20 yards apart are spattered with a bright white substance.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
He has been wearing the same clothes since Wednesday night, and they are now spattered with mud from his thirty-five-mile ride this morning.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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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
Together, we silently watch the thrash and spattering mist of the sea.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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