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speckle

[spek-uhl] / ˈspɛk əl /


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Imaging RPE cells with AO-OCT comes with new challenges, including a phenomenon called speckle.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

Cobblestone streets and mom-and-pop stores speckle the downtown of this city of 18,000 that is caked in red clay soil and nestled among rolling hills.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2022

It is restless and searching, continually morphing in shape, an abstract paintbrush swoosh one moment, a speckle of raindrops the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2020

“Please remove this woman,” said another senator, a man with broad, bullish shoulders and a speckle of sweat on his pale skin.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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