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Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Thinning hair, blotchy skin, the swollen and deformed joints that come from severe arthritis.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025
But the whale’s skin was blotchy, and if it were a right whale, something would have been wrong.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The temperature of the CMB varies ever so slightly across the sky, providing a blotchy snapshot of the universe at the moment neutral atoms formed, 380,000 years after the big bang.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 31, 2023
Mrs. Tyler with her dyed hair, newly straightened and her uncomfortable new false teeth, her leathery skin, blotchy with powder and her giggle.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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It is on display beside the coronation oath, which she signed with what must be the blotchiest, most awkward signature of her long reign.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
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