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Recent Examples of pockmark The Patriots released kicker Justin Rohrwasser this past week, leaving another pockmark on Bill Belichick’s draft record. BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021 One-time pollution episodes left further pockmarks in the nation’s mussel beds. Marion Renault, Wired, 18 Apr. 2020 The pop-up camera gave you a front camera without any screen blemishes at all, and now OnePlus has downgraded with a pockmark in the top-left corner of the phone. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020 Smaller collisions occur more often, so the pattern of pockmarks on Ryugu could have been produced in just nine million years. Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020 See All Example Sentences for pockmark
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pockmark
Noun
  • The scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Slow-moving thunderstorms frequently unleash catastrophic downpours over the South Fork burn scar, a region still reeling from two fires that scorched over 15,000 acres and destroyed 1,400 structures.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But its stock’s advance has lagged that of rival GM as costly recalls to fix quality defects have detracted from Farley’s strategic refocusing and efforts to improve profit margins.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • By protecting tungsten diselenide’s atomic-scale defects, the coating dramatically improved photon reliability.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The belly is tan or gray with dark blotches.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chart from yesterday underlines how Brighton posed all of the threat from the hour-mark until the seemingly inevitable equaliser arrived, with Wolves generating some attacking momentum only after they had been pegged back.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Across the globe, familiar faces made their mark.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Pockmark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pockmark. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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