speckle

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 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

As cancellations increasingly speckle a busy fall concert calendar, the team behind Day In Day Out, Seattle’s first major music festival since the pandemic, was dealt a last-minute blow.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Hundreds of firefighters raced across miles and miles of forest land, often outnumbering the populations of the small towns that speckle southern Oregon.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

The sky above them was stormy, and as they sailed closer, rain began to speckle the surface of the sea.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

People in the stands held their phones up, creating a sea of star-like speckles in the crowd.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

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

In her hand was an egg, pale blue with tiny black-and-white speckles.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

Prized vinyl records and vintage audio equipment are nothing more than a blank mush, speckled with ashes and broken pieces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Trout, their speckled flanks gleaming in the sun, gulped them down one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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

In his larger home – with patios and several rooms – a group of speckled hens fights for rooftop space between the solar panels.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

My wheels sometimes gliding across soft sand that is speckled with slanted sunlight, sometimes grinding against rocky ground that is shadowed by distant mountains.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

The current price run-up is pumping tax revenues into communities stretching from Alaska to North Dakota to the small towns speckling West Texas and New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

One night in October, an enormous swirl of birds flew over Chicago, astounding those who had their binoculars trained on the flashes of yellow, white and brown speckling the sky above.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

If Neutraface starts speckling the homes and fences around your neighborhood, your rent might soar soon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Such graffiti, once speckling the city, has all but disappeared in Bukele’s efforts to erase any trace of the gangs.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Three days after we got there I answered the front door knocker and there stood Karel, coal dust from the train trip still speckling his shoulders.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom