calico

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Recent Examples of calico Meet Arista, a gorgeous calico girl with playful eyes and a soft demeanor, who was saved from attempting to survive alone on the streets. Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for calico
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Adjective
  • This golden bouquet, which comes in a speckled brown ceramic pot, adds moody vibes and a pop of fall-friendly color, to the countertops, table, or coffee table.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
  • On the platform, around the clock, the racket of metal bore pipes and machinery, the drilling grime and the speckled mud mingled with the quieter, cleaner work of scientists in trailers converted to pristine labs and processing posts.
    Rodrique Ngowi, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Women in brightly colored dresses danced in shoes that loudly clicked across the floor.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Across the valley sat a two-story barn where caramel-colored and chestnut-spotted horses plus a storybook white one were lined up along the wooden fence.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Scientists accidentally invented seabird toilet TV Two Japanese scientists just wanted to study how streaked shearwaters run on water to take flight.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One of his images features a mostly dry riverbed, its sand mysteriously streaked.
    Alex Cuadros, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Wise stood on the other side of his daughter, wearing a multicolored jacket.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Florida Transportation Department once again painted over a rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the Pulse Memorial after protesters filled it in with multicolored chalk.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • These recall the varicolored water specimens that Wolfe has exhibited previously.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019

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“Calico.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calico. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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