speck
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A new image captured on June 13, 2026, shows the rover as a tiny green speck against the Martian landscape, just one day before it officially reached the distance milestone.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The crescent Earth — our oasis holding everything we cherish, now just a speck in the infinite blackness — seemed to kiss the jagged lunar surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
At one point, in the Oval Office, Trump noticed a speck on Macron’s coat jacket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Surely, there has got to be some speck of humanity here, some microcosmic pocket of life detectable amid her robotic demeanor and Ratner’s styleless direction.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
Except I won’t believe I’m just a black speck.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jones said Dolgellau "has a history of gold mining" and very small specks of gold could be found among "a lot of gravel".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
A bottle of Ice Age glacial water from the Czech mountains contains dazzling specks of 24‑carat gold.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The production invoked the historical paintings of Hildegard’s visions as well as modern interpretations of them, using videos in which swirling specks of colored light coalesced into figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
We were just specks in the ocean, as tiny as a velella or an anchovy, part of a big, watery world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
I wash the green specks off my hands and head for the front door.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
