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Each dish can track only one satellite at a time and must physically rotate to follow fast-moving LEO satellites streaking across the sky at roughly 17,000 mph (28,000 km/h).
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 May 2026
On court, Osaka wore a blue-and-green Nike dress streaked with vertical ruffles.
The wind whips through my hair as the gleaming new fiberglass speedboat accelerates out of the calm bay and into open waters, striped in shades of turquoise, in defiance of the name.
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Lauren Keith,
Robb Report,
30 May 2026
Over the course of three weeks and nearly 150 hours, Mike Elder carefully crafted his honeybee sculpture, welding on antennas and legs, sculpting the yellow and black-striped body from foam and precisely designing its intricate wings.
Dishes of shepherd’s pie blanketed in smooth, buttery mashed potatoes flecked with cheddar cheese.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
Heintzman also devised a hot brown chowder, with a cream and broth base made to resemble the sandwich’s sauce, flecked with potatoes, corn, turkey, bacon, and tomatoes.
The 21st century has yielded no shortage of stylish horror marbled with devious veins of pitch-dark humor — Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, pretty much every Jordan Peele feature.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Brisket is a tough, richly marbled cut that only turns tender after hours of low-and-slow cooking, when connective tissue breaks down and fat renders into the meat.
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Paula Disbrowe,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 May 2026
Of course local photographer Geoff Baker was out and about in the storm as well, and his black-and-white shot of Main Street, with the snow specking the lens, is also memorable.
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Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2026
When selecting a pattern, veined countertop patterns are the overwhelming favorite (75%), followed by 13% of homeowners choosing specked, and 12% choosing a uniform pattern.
On Tuesday, a few campaign signs speckled the cream walls of the room.
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Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2026
Switzerland's natural beauty and breadth are astounding—snowcapped mountains with some of the world's best skiing, verdant valleys speckled with wildflowers, and quaint cities filled with cultural attractions and world-class restaurants.
The paint is deftly mottled but its handling lacks the prowess of her later work (see, for example, Being Beamed, 1984, a fantasia of extraterrestrial teleportation in which the watercolor is sumptuous but perfectly controlled).
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Its flowers are huge and orange, marked or mottled with maroon splotches.