spattering

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You’ll also hear a larger, darker woofling from the tailpipes, and phlegmy, spattering cough as the rpm fall off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

It’s a veritable Jackson Pollock spattering of woes.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

A spattering of anti-war protests was quickly stamped out.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

And whether a ring, a miniature moon, or some other scenario, spattering our planet with space rocks may have created conditions that set up what we think of as “modern” oceans.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

A freezing drizzle was falling as he walked to the tube station, tiny raindrops spattering his coat, and when he got there, he was absorbed by how many blobs of saliva were on the stairs.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie