speckle

Imaging RPE cells with AO-OCT comes with new challenges, including a phenomenon called speckle.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Cobblestone streets and mom-and-pop stores speckle the downtown of this city of 18,000 that is caked in red clay soil and nestled among rolling hills.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2022

It is restless and searching, continually morphing in shape, an abstract paintbrush swoosh one moment, a speckle of raindrops the next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2020

Instead, with a frown, she spits on her finger and rubs at the reddish brown spots—dried blood from flea bites I scratch too much—that speckle the sleeves of my dirty white blouse.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

This organization gives rise to unique pH profiles within nucleoli, which they measured and compared with the pH of nearby non-nucleolar condensates including nuclear speckles and Cajal bodies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024

Those tell-tale black, dusty speckles first colonised the windowsill, and then took over parts of the wallpaper and nearby furniture.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024

Others showed mere speckles of damage visible among streaks of healthy, red-stained cells.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023

While eggs from the store usually come in a choice of brown or white, with a backyard flock you can have eggshell colors in blues and greens, chocolate brown, or covered in speckles.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

The white speckles that dotted her feathers, which rose to the ceiling, made her plumage look like a snow-covered pine tree forest.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

As I approached the site on my tour bus—the only sanctioned way to visit—hundreds of locked red doors protecting the grottoes came into view, speckled across a sun-bleached cliff face more than a mile long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

You wait until the bananas are nearly gone — soft, speckled, with that distinct on-the-edge-of-death banana smell — and turn them into something new.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

As he rolled up in front of my Van Nuys duplex, his teal Ford Tempo shimmering in the speckled fall sun, a wave of first-date excitement flooded my system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Fighting it in the Pacific would involve a vast, watery battlespace speckled with jungle-swathed island chains—all within reach of those missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

Behind him, strapped into the litde seat, his mouth speckled with leaf fragments, the infant looked back and grinned at Claire.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Growing U.S. output, coupled with a surge in imports from Canada and elsewhere, eventually dimmed Venezuela’s role as a supplier to refiners speckling the Gulf Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The cover art of this digital-only release shows Gustavo Dudamel fixing us in a pensive gaze, gray speckling those formerly exuberant curls and an index finger propping up his forehead.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

Soon after European astronomers developed the first telescopes at the start of the 17th century, they observed dark spots speckling the Sun’s surface.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022

Slightly dizzy, he nevertheless kept his eyes wide open, rain was speckling his glasses and ran up his nostrils as he hung upside down, avoiding another fierce dive from the Bludger.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling