as in colored
having blotches of two or more colors
a marbled chocolate and vanilla cake
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as in sprinkled
to mark with small spots especially unevenly
marble the paper with several different dyes to get a striking effect
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Recent Examples of marbled
Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2025
Shuttled in on golf carts to a powder pink carpet, models, media and micro-celebrities mingled as staff passed out marbled Jell-O shots and macarons stamped with the VS logo.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Ravn’s prose is striking too, richly marbled with quotation and detail pulled from primary source letters and court documents.
—Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Ana Luisa Statement Earrings These bold blue marbled earrings are a splashy complement to a jewelry box full of gold and silver huggie hoops.
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McQueen’s work asks us to confront the ways that awe at beauty can be marbled with disgust.
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During this time, monarchs cluster together in packed colonies for warmth—in a good year, thousands of monarchs might rest on a single tree, creating a kaleidoscope of brilliantly colored wings.—
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Remember, a hard freeze will still damage them, turning them mushy and off-colored.—
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Extra charm could be sprinkled on you during your birthday month, extra intuitive wisdom is another gift.—
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The landscape is sprinkled with white houses and Malvasia vineyards, and appears to have drifted from its volcanic friends to find its own patch of tropical-grade water.—
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Eating a variety of colorful fruits provides essential vitamins that help immune cells develop, communicate, and respond effectively.—
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When the colorful bracts on poinsettia plants fade, prune them away by cutting the bare stems at a leaf node.—
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And in 2012, the Sprinkle’s Cupcake ATMs launched, serving customers their signature dotted cupcakes.—
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People are drawn in by the nostalgic feel of its cityscape dotted with neon signs and public murals.—
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The famed pastry chef shared a photo of 4-year-old Josephine striking a fierce pose in an animal-print dress, along with spotted ears, paws and shoes to match, in an Instagram post on Saturday, Oct. 18.—
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Every inch of their spotted, streamlined bodies is designed for life on the move, carrying them across entire oceans in search of clouds of plankton and fish eggs.—
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Frank doesn’t mind having people killed for his agenda, but has avoided getting his hands stained with blood.—
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Cut the blanket into smaller pieces, avoiding areas that are worn, ripped, or stained, and turn them into pillow covers, tote bags, cushions, dog bedding, and more.—
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The whole rug needs to get wet or colors in the fiber could migrate and result in a blotched look.—
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Its leaves are deciduous and sometimes white-blotched.—
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This double-crust, old-fashioned pie may look ordinary on the outside, but when it's sliced, the inside reveals vibrant orange layers of sweet potatoes flecked with spices and sweetened with sugar and sorghum syrup.—
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Halcyon, a mauve tone with turquoise shimmer, and Nymphaea, a magenta flecked with pink and lilac glitter.—
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“Marbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marbled. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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