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as in striped
having stripes hair streaked with gray

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verb

past tense of streak
as in barred
to make stripes on light from the setting sun streaked the clouds in brilliant bands of pink and orange

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Recent Examples of streaked
Adjective
Scientists accidentally invented seabird toilet TV Two Japanese scientists just wanted to study how streaked shearwaters run on water to take flight. Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025 One of his images features a mostly dry riverbed, its sand mysteriously streaked. Alex Cuadros, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025 Then, the plant emits some sort of gas right into Devin’s face, and his mug once again becomes streaked in black. Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025 But despite the gaping hole at its center, the composition clearly depicts a harbor scene with boats and buildings set against a streaked white and blue sky. Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024 The method yields images that are streaked and cracked, with surfaces that are alternately riven and raised. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023 At Lever House, the plaza pavers were pitted and smashed, travertine was streaked, glass walls had clouded, and steel panels looked like they’d been used for slingshot practice. Curbed, 9 June 2023 The setting was a streaked, bulbous frozen face on the fractured lower section of the Glacier du Tour, the northernmost ice sheet in the French portion of the Mont Blanc massif. Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
Verb
Of those, 701 sightings remain unidentified, including whatever streaked and hovered over the nation’s capital in July 1952. Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025 The sky is constantly overcast, streaked with red lightning, while the setting is forever frozen in the year 1983, on the day Eleven first opened the wormhole. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025 Turpin streaked across the middle of the field right by the rolling safety and Prescott put it on his chest around the 50-yard line. Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Dec. 2025 Zane Gonzalez's 50-yard field goal attempt was swatted away by Nick Emmanwori, who streaked in off the edge without being blocked. CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025 The cave, which was found by Hekla Tang, the snowmobile operations manager for tour company Arctic Adventures, was likely formed by meltwater and shifting ice and features a spacious chamber made of high-clarity ice streaked with layers of volcanic ash from past volcanic eruptions. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025 Alcaraz somehow clung on to hold serve, broke Fritz to win the set and then streaked away with the third, to consign Fritz to a 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 defeat. Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025 Silver streaked the black comma of his fringe. Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025 In an early-season roadie against Rhode Island University, a Harvard safety streaked upfield to lay a blind-side shot on a wide-out. Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for streaked
striped
Adjective
  • Its jewel, however, is the pool, complete with striped double chaises and an epic view of the coast down below.
    Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Premium Pliers Gugino, who guides striped bass and bluefish around Boston Harbor, and Rubner never leave the dock without a premium pair of pliers.
    Francesca Krempa, Outside, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Streaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streaked. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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