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On every landing, something was always peeling: walls striated with gray paint like shedding snakes; red and gold fú signs (for good fortune) coming unstuck from the last new year.
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Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
Flaco is enormous and distinctive, with a strong, tufted brow, orange eyes, and bright brown-and-white feathers that blend and striate together.
—Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
Around the halfway point, when a stretch of Mitchell’s striated soprano-saxophone ornamentations gives way to jaunty patterns in the wider orchestra, there is a sense of a singular intelligence at work.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
The entire background pattern is rendered in thick, roiled paint — a hallucinatory expanse of vines or waves — and the child’s white shirt and socks are striated from the back end of the brush.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
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Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
Flaco is enormous and distinctive, with a strong, tufted brow, orange eyes, and bright brown-and-white feathers that blend and striate together.
—Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
Around the halfway point, when a stretch of Mitchell’s striated soprano-saxophone ornamentations gives way to jaunty patterns in the wider orchestra, there is a sense of a singular intelligence at work.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
The entire background pattern is rendered in thick, roiled paint — a hallucinatory expanse of vines or waves — and the child’s white shirt and socks are striated from the back end of the brush.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
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Architect Bo Lee designed a steel-and-glass partition for the foyer, where Frannie and Posie, Abigail Klem Spector’s coton de tulear dogs, sit, and created a black-and-white floor with Statuary and Nero Marquina marbles.Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2024
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There’s also the international Beef Marbling Score, which grades marbling on a scale of one to 12.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 23 July 2024
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But these bellwether streaks rest on the barest of margins.Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
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The man, his clothes dusty and his arms streaked with red, had a broken shoulder blade and a punctured lung.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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And there was considerable evidence of current ideas on baroque performance practice: buoyant rhythms, variegated (not absolute) legato, sparing string vibrato.Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
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Take Cues from the Landscape For this garden door container, red-orange copperleaf and variegated sea hibiscus tie into the color of a nearby Japanese maple.Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
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The oval leaves of prayer plant are striped and mottled with shades of yellow, red, and green.Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024
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In another video, filmed by Agence France-Presse not long after the air strike, Layan’s face was mottled with burns.Longreads, Longreads, 6 Aug. 2024
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For more basic designs, these blue and white striped pajamas from Carters are soft and made without any sort of chemicals.Christopher Murray, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Sampaio hit the runway in New York on Oct. 15 wearing a giant black and copper striped bow with six different D-loops.Hedy Phillips, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Mission accomplished beautifully with the crisp and fluffy puffs flecked with fragrant scallions.Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024
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This pretty pink liquid is even flecked with shimmer made out of pearls, which not only give hair extra luster but also fortify it with its naturally occurring vital minerals.Devon Abelman, Allure, 2 Oct. 2024
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The park has several short hiking trails, speckled with historical cabins.Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2024
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In the evening, as a deep red sun set over the outside village rooftops, lights glimmered like lanterns, speckling the property in twinkling gold.Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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The 656-foot vessel, called the Golden Ray, has been lying since early September off a slice of the Georgia coast specked with resorts and sprawling high-dollar homes.New York Times, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2019
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Now, their territory has fewer than 1,000 residents and consists of about 7,300 acres, with roads wandering through woods specked with modest family homes.New York Times, New York Times, 22 June 2018
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“Striate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/striate. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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