blotch
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For many years, scientists primarily associated bacterial blotch with a single disease-causing bacterial pathogen.
From Science Daily β Oct. 11, 2026
It would be an unavoidable blotch at the bottom of James’ 23-season resume that otherwise is highlighted by a 3-1 comeback against the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 30, 2026
I also had a little red blotch of skin, but as I said, my thighs rub together, so maybe it was nothing?
From Slate β Mar. 13, 2024
But the second image included a big blotch, a blast zone of disturbed dust radiating outward more than 10 miles that had not been in the first image.
From New York Times β Oct. 27, 2022
It spread into a blotch that reached to the edges of my vision.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 16, 2026
As he recounted the odyssey, more than 20 years of practice could be charted through various blotches and burn scars on his arms.
From Los Angeles Times β May 6, 2026
But other populations are bright green and lack blotches, making them look almost identical to the redtail pit viper.
From Science Daily β Apr. 21, 2026
“If it does easily, you may not need as much water. If it’s difficult to come out, or comes out in blotches, use the wet method.”
From Seattle Times β Feb. 2, 2024
He was shocked to see how fat she had become and that her face was covered with blotches.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!
From Salon β May 28, 2025
As Bowling discovered in Palau, blotched anthias require very specific temperatures.
From Seattle Times β Oct. 19, 2022
An example of the founder effect is the cyclical dominance of three throat-color patterns in side- blotched lizards.
From Textbooks β Jun. 9, 2022
Altered taqpep genes were already known to cause blotched tabby patterns in cats, as well as king cheetahs’ unusually large spots and stripes.
From Scientific American β Dec. 21, 2021
Cat would be sobbing, her tiny face blotched, and her mother rocking back and forth outside, both of them with nowhere to go.
From "Nory Ryanβs Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.
From Science Daily β Apr. 21, 2026
In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.
From The New Yorker β Mar. 5, 2017
The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each variety, whatever its parentage may have been, retained all its characters perfect, and there was no streaking or blotching of the colours, as in the foregoing plants of crossed origin.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
The coloured picture will convey a far better idea as to the colouring and blotching of the flowers than any printed description.
From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers
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