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as in speck
a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part
flooring tile that is brown with flecks of white
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as in particle
a very small piece
wiped a fleck of cookie off his jacket
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as in to sprinkle
to mark with small spots especially unevenly
to achieve the desired effect, fleck the canvas with paint simply by flicking the brush close to the surface
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Recent Examples of fleck
Emily Leahy, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025
In any case, there are sure to be at least a few flecks of moss or lichen, gray or gray-green, on that side.
—Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
Pervaiz Shallwani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
It was flecked with the nuts of the region—black walnuts, pecans, or English walnuts.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
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Noun
While mostly white-colored overall, hues of pink can be visible along with black flecks spread along the plant.
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The changing menu can feature noodles floating in a creamy peanut broth, garnished with cilantro and cucumber, all flecked with chili crisp.
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On our table are a plate of thin-sliced speck, ham, and cheese, a dish with curls of homemade butter that look like tiny beehives, two pots of homemade strawberry and apricot jam, and a jar of golden honey from the farm bees.—
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Not until 52 hours later will the last speck of the sun's upper limb finally drop completely out of sight.—
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Then coat your sink in dish soap and lightly scrub with a sponge to remove all food particles, stuck-on-gunk, and more.—
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Up next will be the construction of new water quality testing lab space in a building previously dedicated to flocculation, or getting particles to clump together for easier removal.—
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The show also sprinkles in factoids about Daniel’s military past, his upbringing in Italy and his fractured family dynamic.—
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John Wood mans the kit; Jeff Adamczyk sprinkles stars above on keys.—
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During the dot com bubble at the turn of the 21st Century, telecom equipment makers such as Nortel, Lucent, and Cisco lent money to startups and telecom companies to purchase their equipment.—
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But put all the dots on a page and a pattern emerges of a socio-religious movement using government to fight back against and control a media perceived as secular, liberal and anti-Republican.—
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That play out in center field the other day kind of flared it up a little bit.—
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Our offense started to come alive a little bit.—
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It’s made with hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid and vitamin E, and it can even be paired with your favorite lip balm or gloss — without staining the applicator — for an extra boost of moisture.—
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In his third season in Boulder, coach Deion Sanders continues to lament an issue that ruined his first season and stained his second.—
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The belly is tan or gray with dark blotches.—
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Gopher snakes tend to be tan-colored with large square brown blotches or saddles along their backs and smaller gray spots on their sides.—
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Small things, like individual eyelashes or grains of sand, often get flushed out on their own through a combination of tearing up and blinking, per Mount Sinai.—
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Swapping low-fiber grains, like white rice, with high-fiber grains, like barley, is an easy way to boost your intake of this important nutrient.—
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“Fleck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleck. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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