birthmark
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One gets the sense that Miriam’s inner darkness is inseparable from her brilliance, like Georgiana’s birthmark in Hawthorne’s early short story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
They are asking the public to keep an eye out for the 5-foot-7 Asian male, who has black hair, black eyes, a birthmark on his left upper shoulder and weighs around 170 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
Amba, whose birthmark is one of a number of features of Sturge-Weber Syndrome, said finding self-acceptance was an ongoing journey.
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
The birthmark was to grow darker as the years passed, but now it was the same shade as her gold-flecked eyes, which, to the end, were as steady and clean as rain.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
People with larger or multiple CMN may develop more birthmarks after birth, particularly during their first few years.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mutations in the skin, for example, occasionally resulted in unusual pigment patterns such as port-wine stain birthmarks.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023
The finalists are examined by the priest’s wife for scars, birthmarks and other perceived defects.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
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 were people with quills in their hands and people with stars in their hands and people with birthmarks on their foreheads that looked like crescent moons.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
