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Recent Examples of pockUnlicensed cannabis stores that a year ago pock-marked the urban landscape have been shuttered on block after block (though plenty remain).—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025 The castle’s bleached, sparse interior also looks a lot like the one in Herzog’s film, and this new Nosferatu’s recurring motifs—swarming rats, Catholic totems, a beach pock-marked with wonky graves—simultaneously pays tribute and blows dust off the hundred-year-old story.—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024 They were riddled with lesions, pock marks and holes.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024 Barks, not the pock of tennis balls, were heard across the sunny, 40-acre (16-hectare) grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.—Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 6 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for pock
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
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Nicole Foy,
ProPublica,
13 Jan. 2026
After landing at their final destination the next day, the lawsuit claims that the four were left with welts, lesions, and rashes.
Spoiler alert: The monster is definitely real, a lion-bear hybrid covered in disgusting bloody pustules.
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Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
In fact, one of the most common triggers of rosacea, which is characterized by flushing, swelling, spider veins, papules, and pustules, is exposure to sunlight.
May Be Useful in Acne Treatment People with acne often have lowered serum zinc levels, and both oral and topical zinc have been found to reduce the prevalence of inflammatory papules, both when used as monotherapy and as a supplemental therapy.5
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Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2026
In fact, one of the most common triggers of rosacea, which is characterized by flushing, swelling, spider veins, papules, and pustules, is exposure to sunlight.