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The tweets are written in all caps and are smattered with random old-guy quotation marks, parentheticals, and pejorative nicknames.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2025

My second year with Frothville was a very different experience from last year — and not just because of the biblical rainfall that smattered headlines.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2024

Atop all that, there’s a smattered crunch of toasted panko breadcrumbs.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2022

The lunches are smattered with Coogan and Brydon riffing off each other with their now-famous impressions of well-known actors, including Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Hugh Grant, often masking underlying competitiveness between the two.

From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2014

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid’s cabin looked like an iced cake.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling