freckle
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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
She even has the freckle underneath your right eye and the dimple in your cheek.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
By the 1920s, a few freckles and a well-placed tan line would probably mean you had moved up a social class or two, and suggested health, wealth and luxurious holidays.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
She’d even drawn Magic Marker freckles onto her pale skin.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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Its shell is painted to resemble SpongeBob’s freckled face.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
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
But the glow of the freckled, big-eyed actor who so memorably played Marion Ravenwood has only grown stronger over time.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Although he’s typically iced out with a diamond-encrusted Spiderman chain and engulfed by designer jackets, today the MC is simply dressed in black T-shirt and jeans, emphasizing his fair, freckled skin and shaggy brown mullet.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
When I was finally standing in front of him, he slowly raised his eyes to my face, his lightly freckled cheeks blazing red, much like mine.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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The bacon on the Cowboy is crumbled to fine pebbles — freckling the surface of the pie rather than screaming “BACON,” on top of sausage.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
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
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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