speck

As I wrote years ago, the individual investor has always been “at the very bottom of the food chain, a speck of plankton afloat in a sea of predators.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

From a distance, Smith saw what looked like steam or smoke rising from a speck in the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

A new image captured on June 13, 2026, shows the rover as a tiny green speck against the Martian landscape, just one day before it officially reached the distance milestone.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

At one point, in the Oval Office, Trump noticed a speck on Macron’s coat jacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Lily used honey these days, rebelling against a product pretending to be maple syrup without a speck of the real thing in it.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

Jones said Dolgellau "has a history of gold mining" and very small specks of gold could be found among "a lot of gravel".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

With the naked eye, they looked like sand-colored specks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

A bottle of Ice Age glacial water from the Czech mountains contains dazzling specks of 24‑carat gold.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The production invoked the historical paintings of Hildegard’s visions as well as modern interpretations of them, using videos in which swirling specks of colored light coalesced into figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

I hope I will remember what it felt like to really see those specks of light that illuminate the darkness.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga