as in flecks
a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part
the cat has a speckle of orange right at her whiskers
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as in sprinkles
to mark with small spots especially unevenly
speckled the cookies with colored sugar
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Recent Examples of speckles
Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2026
White speckles dot the purple mold, while a gradient sole unit runs through blue, purple and pink.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 2 Jan. 2026
Their belly is white with black speckles while their wings and back are black with white.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
The most prosaic explanation is that Villarroel’s transients are simply artifacts in the photographic plates such as speckles of dust, blobs in the emulsion or even radioactive particles.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
The blanket, wrapped tightly around a baby, and its flourishes of red embroidery looking eerily like speckles of blood.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
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For example, 'Pink Splash’ features hot pink streaks on deep green leaves, and ‘Snow White’ has white speckles on deep green leaves.
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The same kind of misunderstanding speckles the discourse around Live Laugh Love, his stellar new album.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for speckles
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López reportedly found flecks of gold while digging wild onions, sparking an early gold rush.—
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Shiny and dark evergreen foliage is held aloft on strong, arching stems mottled with purple flecks.—
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Much like Knives Out, the movie takes a much more lighthearted approach and sprinkles humor throughout.—
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The shareable treat features Galactic Brownie ice cream, fudge drizzle, M&Ms candies, and Halloween sprinkles atop a double fudge brownie crust.—
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Microcalcifications appear as white specks and may indicate cancer in some cases.—
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There were also no visible specks of spices.—
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Barnett dots up Knight for a 57-yard catch-and-run.—
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Rather than the stiff alien chitchat that dots his own screenplays, the characters in The Favourite trade the witty, venomous bon mots of The Great creator Tony McNamara.—
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Photos show the Maratus australis spider, which has an intricate pattern of blue and brown blotches edged with bright teal and red-orange stripes.—
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This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.—
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Blood still regularly stains the floors of the Coliseum’s rings.—
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Those canyons provide thousands of patches of natural habitat that interpenetrate the edges of greater Los Angeles.—
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Some of the new services offered in South County include electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, ambulatory monitoring patches that track heart rhythm and treadmill stress tests.—
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“Speckles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speckles. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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