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“We don’t have photographs, site plans, measurements, the recovery of projectiles, blood spatter analysis, all of those things we would normally get at a crime scene.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

In Alameda County, inspectors found weld spatter waste, which sometimes contains copper, along with paint mix, used wipes with primer and other hazardous waste dumped into ordinary trash containers at Tesla’s Fremont factory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

In the defense’s defense, there isn’t strong physical evidence—blood spatter on clothing, fingerprints or footprints, or a definitive murder weapon—tying Alex Murdaugh to the killings.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2023

Prosecutors said at a December hearing that there could be problems with the blood spatter work but asked to huddle with investigators.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

The bears seemed not to see the mess, however, and they led the way in through the huge arch, over the icy ground that was filthy with the spatter of the birds.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

But the big challenge is that metal parts created with additive manufacturing have defects -- like pores, or "voids," rough surfaces and large spatters -- that significantly compromise the finished part's reliability and durability.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

It's hard to look fashionable in a Christmas jumper covered in mince pie crumbs and spatters of mulled wine, so we're not here to make anybody feel bad this festive season.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

The forensic minutiae are duly intriguing: Blood spatters are closely analyzed, timetables meticulously reconstructed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Bloodstain-pattern analysis is a forensic discipline whose practitioners regard the drops, spatters and trails of blood at a crime scene as clues that can sometimes be used to reconstruct and even reverse-engineer the crime itself.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

She sees spiders in high corners and even fleas jumping up in the air—pah! pah! pah!—like little spatters of hot oil.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Llera, who has covered crime for more than three decades, smoked a cigarette while he snapped photographs of a taxi spattered with blood.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

Day after day the sky was gray as rain spattered against the windows.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

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

Then she dips the first piece of meat into the breadcrumbs and drops it, spattering, into the oil.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina