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Recent Examples of striate
There are three main types of muscle tissue: smooth muscle lines the gut wall and organs, except the heart; cardiac muscle is striated and covers the heart; and skeletal muscle, which can be found in the arms and legs, is also striated.
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Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 July 2023
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.
—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
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Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 July 2023
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.
—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
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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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Above the finish line, a shooting star streaks through a small hole in the clouds, a brief flash in the dark, just the narrowest of openings in the black, wet sky.Outside Online, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
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Just be sure to look for liners topped with rust-resistant metal grommets because a trail of rust streaking your liner can be very unsightly! 4.Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 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 gas stations had the dingy look of gas stations everywhere, mottled with the stains of oil and exhaust.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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The affected areas may appear white, pale, yellow, or mottled blue, depending on your skin tone.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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The first snap is of the toddler in a brown and white striped sweater standing outside on a dirt path surrounded by trees and rocks.Raven Brunner, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Studded linen sandals, striped Mary Jane espadrilles, and the retro Isla wedges that wouldn’t look out of place on a vintage Italian postcard round out the offering.Freya Drohan, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
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The shrimp butter will also return to spread on warm pieces of toast flecked with sea salt, as will the whole roasted chicken served with maitake and challah migas.Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 17 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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Alongside pro-Trump banners and at least one poster of Harris with devil horns, Portuguese flags speckled the crowd.Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Spangler’s set is bulky and expensive-looking, seemingly committed to a kind of realism, and yet that soaring netting is speckled with what look like raisins — stationary black dots that are meant to be bees.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Feb. 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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