birthmark

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Recent Examples of birthmark The center described the young girl as having a birthmark on her forehead, one lazy eye and potentially requiring medical attention. Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 The center described the young girl as having a birthmark on her forehead, one lazy eye and potentially requiring medical attention. Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 The main features include a red birthmark, ranging in color from pink to reddish-purple, atypical vein or lymphatic development, and overgrowth of tissues and bones. Angela Andaloro, People.com, 12 Dec. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthmark
Noun
  • Marty Short would have 1,000 jokes about my legs: spam, freckles, pale.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • What makes her fans stop this particular 28-year-old on the street, paint facsimiles of her freckles on their faces, and wait in line to buy her $20 smoothie collab at Erewhon?
    Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Color: The color of the mole varies from one area to another.
    Sarah Jividen, Health, 13 June 2025
  • Maani, who was granted a deferred prosecution agreement by the U.S. attorney’s office for his extensive cooperation, was the star witness at Jones’ trial, testifying for the first time in public about his prolific turn as an FBI mole.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Their backs are a mixture of cream dots, orange-ish speckles and brown blotches.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 June 2025
  • These are more typically animals with stripes instead of blotches, missing patterns, and similar.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Jennifer worked knee-deep in oil for months, returning home reeking of fumes, covered in black splotches and breaking out in rashes and suffering headaches.
    Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Bowfins have a dark splotch on their tails and lack the python-like spots of the invasive species.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Examples can be seen as small red patches all across this view of Chamaeleon I. The most recent census of Chamaeleon I, by Penn State University astronomer Kevin Luhman in 2017, found about 50 new stars and brown dwarfs, bringing the total population of Chamaeleon I up to 226 members.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 June 2025
  • In the 75th minute, Seattle earned a free kick in nearly the same patch of grass from where Telles served up the opener.
    Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 15 June 2025

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“Birthmark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthmark. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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