speckle

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Reflected, back-scattered photons return from the target object carrying speckle noise, a random type of flaw that occurs in imagery.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2024

Photographs of children and grandchildren speckle the walls.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022

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

When the seeds are folded through the batter, they dip below the surface, emerge and then finally speckle the batter.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2022

Instead, with a frown, she spits on her finger and rubs at the reddish brown spots—dried blood from flea bites I scratch too much—that speckle the sleeves of my dirty white blouse.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau