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flyspeck

[flahy-spek] / ˈflaɪˌspɛk /




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The 17-year-old best friends are neighbors in a flyspeck California town in the Mojave Desert.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

More procedural requirements mean more chances for a judge to flyspeck some aspect of rulemaking.

From Slate Jan. 10, 2023

The level of funding required would be a flyspeck in the military budget, not an endless boondoggle.

From Washington Times Apr. 9, 2018

He avoids big cities and opts instead to meander through “the Black Belt, the Delta, the backwoods, the flyspeck towns.”

From New York Times Sep. 11, 2017

We went out, an' the' was somethin' a-floatin' away up yonder, lookin' like a flyspeck on a new tablecloth.

From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason




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