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polka dots

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plural of polka dot

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From the dining table below, where a young Charley often helped her grandmother fill blank planes with delicate dots, Caland could look up and see how far her line had taken her.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Sometimes the best way to find them is by digging through what came before, connecting dots, and seeing something that everyone else missed.

— Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of dots

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As the weather cools and pool parties and cookouts are traded for football tailgates and pumpkin patches, why not add a concert to the mix?

— DeAsia Paige, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026
After Swift appeared with Fazit’s Gold Speckles makeup patches decorating her cheeks, the brand reported a 3,500 percent increase in direct-to-consumer sales.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of patches

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The designs include a bright orange mug, a white mug with orange dots and a to-go iced coffee cup complete with an orange straw, white speckles and a tiny orange pumpkin detail.

— Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026
The creature was pale with speckles and had suffered injuries to its tail and stomach, believed to have been caused by a predator, BBC reported.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of speckles

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Some kits include stone-like chips or flecks to scatter over the surface of the wet paint for a realistic effect.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2026
Hundreds of flecks of sequins caught the light as Jenner made her way down the red carpet, glittering from every angle.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of flecks

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While some of the color contrasts do articulate planar shifts, such as the candy-stripe lips (red for upper, pink for lower), many of the touches are arbitrary splotches that neither bolster a shape nor set another off.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
The handmade corn cakes come off the griddle lightly crisped with black and brown splotches and avoid the common pitfall of being overly greasy.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of splotches

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Juveniles can be distinguished by their dark facial bands and gray or tan body patterned with black or brown blotches.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026
Crews are also using steam to remove blotches of chewing gum, which have turned black over time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of blotches

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And today’s LLMs are able to call on other computational modules to fill in their weak spots, so language is the gateway to ever-broader capacity.

— George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Even when there are 38 ships going through in a day, the administrator says only three spots are usually auctioned off.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026

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