splotch
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About the size of my thumbprint, gray with white and black bands and a distinctive orange splotch on its wing, I almost missed it.
From National Geographic • Dec. 7, 2023
He held it defiantly, waiting for the camera to zoom in on his folded brown splotch.
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2023
Just a deep-red splotch on a scientist's map telling everyone it's hot out there, and perhaps a photo of birds washed up on a faraway beach to prove it.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023
The bathrooms are four port-a-potties, blue siding a splotch of color in a landscape of beaten-down squalor at the base of a flourishing grove of eucalyptus trees.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023
It had started the cut to smarting again so when I went to wash I hung the vest on a chair and lowered the light cord so that the bulb would be drying the splotch.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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