speckle

Managing speckle is somewhat similar to managing cloud cover.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 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

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

As cancellations increasingly speckle a busy fall concert calendar, the team behind Day In Day Out, Seattle’s first major music festival since the pandemic, was dealt a last-minute blow.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

“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

This organization gives rise to unique pH profiles within nucleoli, which they measured and compared with the pH of nearby non-nucleolar condensates including nuclear speckles and Cajal bodies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

Those tell-tale black, dusty speckles first colonised the windowsill, and then took over parts of the wallpaper and nearby furniture.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024

Others showed mere speckles of damage visible among streaks of healthy, red-stained cells.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023

Fluorosis is a cosmetic condition in which one's teeth appear to have small speckles on them.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2022

It’s Lolo’s old radio, the one that’s covered in paint speckles from all our jobs.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

You wait until the bananas are nearly gone — soft, speckled, with that distinct on-the-edge-of-death banana smell — and turn them into something new.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

When Bronner pulled up to company headquarters in his Tesla—a dragon decal along the side and a speckled mutt in the back seat—he was 30 minutes late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Seven native rattlesnake species are in California, including the Mojave, Western diamondback, red diamond, Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Great Basin, and the speckled rattlesnake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

Ink splotches speckled the edges of the paper, and the handwriting looked like it had been scribbled on dinoback.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Growing U.S. output, coupled with a surge in imports from Canada and elsewhere, eventually dimmed Venezuela’s role as a supplier to refiners speckling the Gulf Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

One night in October, an enormous swirl of birds flew over Chicago, astounding those who had their binoculars trained on the flashes of yellow, white and brown speckling the sky above.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

Such graffiti, once speckling the city, has all but disappeared in Bukele’s efforts to erase any trace of the gangs.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Rain began falling, softly at first, speckling my blouse and skirt with wet spots.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn