birthmark

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Recent Examples of birthmark Olympia coaxes that out of her thanks to a security video Matty obtained from the nail salon where Katya works, showing a woman with the same birthmark on her hand as Caruso’s speaking to a clearly distressed Katya. Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024 Aysha ends up getting three votes, all of them spelling her name wrong, and one inside the drawing of what is supposed to be Asia the continent but looks more like a birthmark on a witch’s backside, and she’s sent packing. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024 The film tells the story of a successful textile merchant who can’t find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024 Williams has short, black hair, a birthmark on his throat and skin pigmentation on his hands and legs, police said in their incident report. Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for birthmark
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Noun
  • Kylie showed off her svelte figure, her bare face — freckles and all — and undone hair.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • With optional features such as skin tone, hair color, glasses, mustache, freckles and appropriate military branch uniform, the dolls can be ordered to look like the parent.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Insider threats have been around for a long time: the CIA mole toiling quietly in the Soviet government office, the Boeing engineer who secretly ferried information about the space shuttle program to the Chinese government.
    Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • After perfecting arroz con pollo and sour cherry mole, Mr. Vongerichten admitted that America’s favorite mocktail had slipped through the cracks.
    Shannon Doyne, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The fish have white faces with a black blotch in front of the eyes, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Dark brown blotches with black edges dot its back, sometimes joining together to form bands.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • French astronomer Charles Messier had catalogued more than one hundred of these fuzzy splotches in the late seventeenth century, and then the Herschel family used large reflecting telescopes to find even more.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The huge piece was pitted like a Holland cheese and carried on its irregular surface some splotches of green and snuff-yellow where the lichens clung in spotted patterns.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Weed treatment can leave behind bare patches of soil.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The Note 20 was last updated with a security patch in January.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025

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“Birthmark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthmark. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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