birthmark
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And while one hesitates to say “in spite of,” Ms. Naud has cultivated a healthy career in genre films with a very prominent nevus, or birthmark, under her right eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
He has the tender, shining eyes of an ingenue while Del Campo, who has a striking birthmark on her cheek, is a femme fatale able to hold her own against Wolff’s selfish, useless playboy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Amba Smith, who also features in the exhibition, has a birthmark that stretches from her head to her toes and also affects her internal organs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024
In my shower in California, I scrub the soap against a rough white cotton washcloth and move the towel across every limb, every birthmark, every scar.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
“Leading the army right to us,” says the birthmark.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Mutations in the skin, for example, occasionally resulted in unusual pigment patterns such as port-wine stain birthmarks.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023
Even among humans, identical twins can possess different birthmarks, wrinkles, or other features that arise during development sometimes due to differential gene expression.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There are my moles, birthmarks shaped like butter beans because my Mom said she used to crave them when she was pregnant with me.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021
SoCal Connected “Assassin Bugs”; children with facial birthmarks and deformities receive a life-changing experience; hometown mission of Mending Kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2017
They have identical birthmarks, diminutive caramel crescents over their left eyelids, and their braids hang in duplicate ropes down their backs.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
