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freckle

[frek-uhl] / ˈfrɛk əl /


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With a flash of light, 2,000 photographs are taken of my body, in the hope of capturing every mark, freckle and mole to analyse for different skin cancers.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

“The doctor was looking at each freckle with a magnifying glass,” she wrote.

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2024

I can feel the backs of my knees burn and I can see my otherwise monochrome shoulders freckle if I’m outside for a bit too long.

From Scientific American Sep. 8, 2023

These Polynesian islands — a freckle, invisible on many maps — make up the world's fourth smallest nation, population around 12,000 and a land size of ten square miles.

From Salon Dec. 3, 2022

I freckle her body with beautiful beauty marks.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

It's my freckles, I'm told, and having freckles puts me at higher risk of skin cancer.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Families with pale skin, freckles or a history of skin cancer should be extra careful.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

You want freckles and edges that lean just shy of too dark.

From Salon Feb. 24, 2026

Accessories—anything from shoelace charms to glitter freckles to decor for your decor—give consumers ways to update their look and express themselves at a fraction of the cost.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

Cecily the Great, she had scrawled beneath a drawing of Peter the Great, to which she had added freckles and two long pigtails.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

There’s a creamy baked potato soup, pale and plush, freckled with salty bacon.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

If you ask Cirone which is his favorite, he will tell you the Gold Rush, a golden-green apple with a freckled skin, crisp crunch and rich, tart flavor.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 29, 2023

A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2023

I glance down at my own freckled brown arm.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Mr. Arbery’s case has reflected the conflicting currents that have long coursed through Glynn County, situated in what’s known as the Golden Isles freckling the Georgia coast between Savannah and Jacksonville.

From New York Times May 10, 2020

Jupiter’s great red spot is visible at the 10 o’clock position; a freckling of white ovals—most distinct at eight and nine o’clock—likely indicate deep atmospheric storms.

From Time Oct. 25, 2017

It is a freckling of snow on cobbled pavements and the golden light from a window on a dark evening that glows like a Russian icon on a museum wall.

From The Guardian Oct. 8, 2017

Holocaust Memorial Museum stretched halfway down the block Wednesday, raindrops freckling the sidewalk, as Barbara Conroy and her teenage granddaughter, Molly Giguiere, inched toward the doors.

From Washington Post Apr. 12, 2017

For once I was glad of the privacy of the deep sunbonnet that Mother made me wear to prevent freckling.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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