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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

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

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

Humans are rare in Dilg’s landscapes, though their impact is not; in “Improvements,” large tree stumps speckle the bank of a river like pockmarks.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

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




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