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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

He also noted that the police had for months wrongly believed that blood spatter had been found on Mr. Murdaugh’s shirt, when, in fact, more rigorous tests taken later showed no blood.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

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

A soft spatter sounds from Willa’s bedroom window.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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 wipes the spatters away absentmindedly before scattering a teaspoon of salt into the chickpeas.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

On one residential street, two machines about 20 yards apart are spattered with a bright white substance.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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

Doves had nested on the windowsill, adding their excrement and feathers to the spattered panes.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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 there were cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice, cabbage leaves of such a toughness that they were almost impossible to cut without spattering ground meat and rice all over the carpet.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman