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Recent Examples of streaked
Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 22 Jan. 2026
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
Then, the plant emits some sort of gas right into Devin’s face, and his mug once again becomes streaked in black.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
But despite the gaping hole at its center, the composition clearly depicts a harbor scene with boats and buildings set against a streaked white and blue sky.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
The method yields images that are streaked and cracked, with surfaces that are alternately riven and raised.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
At Lever House, the plaza pavers were pitted and smashed, travertine was streaked, glass walls had clouded, and steel panels looked like they’d been used for slingshot practice.
—Curbed, 9 June 2023
The setting was a streaked, bulbous frozen face on the fractured lower section of the Glacier du Tour, the northernmost ice sheet in the French portion of the Mont Blanc massif.
—Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Another lies nearby, his body sprawled on the tiled floor with arms raised and blood streaked across the face.
—Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
Of those, 701 sightings remain unidentified, including whatever streaked and hovered over the nation’s capital in July 1952.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
The sky is constantly overcast, streaked with red lightning, while the setting is forever frozen in the year 1983, on the day Eleven first opened the wormhole.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Turpin streaked across the middle of the field right by the rolling safety and Prescott put it on his chest around the 50-yard line.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Dec. 2025
Zane Gonzalez's 50-yard field goal attempt was swatted away by Nick Emmanwori, who streaked in off the edge without being blocked.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
The cave, which was found by Hekla Tang, the snowmobile operations manager for tour company Arctic Adventures, was likely formed by meltwater and shifting ice and features a spacious chamber made of high-clarity ice streaked with layers of volcanic ash from past volcanic eruptions.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
Alcaraz somehow clung on to hold serve, broke Fritz to win the set and then streaked away with the third, to consign Fritz to a 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 defeat.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
But these days, gray is proudly everywhere—streaked, salt-and-pepper, fully silver, or something in between—and brow pencils have finally caught up.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 22 Jan. 2026
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
Then, the plant emits some sort of gas right into Devin’s face, and his mug once again becomes streaked in black.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
But despite the gaping hole at its center, the composition clearly depicts a harbor scene with boats and buildings set against a streaked white and blue sky.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
The method yields images that are streaked and cracked, with surfaces that are alternately riven and raised.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
At Lever House, the plaza pavers were pitted and smashed, travertine was streaked, glass walls had clouded, and steel panels looked like they’d been used for slingshot practice.
—Curbed, 9 June 2023
The setting was a streaked, bulbous frozen face on the fractured lower section of the Glacier du Tour, the northernmost ice sheet in the French portion of the Mont Blanc massif.
—Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
Verb
Fernando, who normally studies quakes on the moon and Mars, teamed up with Imperial College London’s Constantinos Charalambous the day after the Chinese debris streaked across the California sky in 2024.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Another lies nearby, his body sprawled on the tiled floor with arms raised and blood streaked across the face.
—Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
Of those, 701 sightings remain unidentified, including whatever streaked and hovered over the nation’s capital in July 1952.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
The sky is constantly overcast, streaked with red lightning, while the setting is forever frozen in the year 1983, on the day Eleven first opened the wormhole.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Turpin streaked across the middle of the field right by the rolling safety and Prescott put it on his chest around the 50-yard line.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Dec. 2025
Zane Gonzalez's 50-yard field goal attempt was swatted away by Nick Emmanwori, who streaked in off the edge without being blocked.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
The cave, which was found by Hekla Tang, the snowmobile operations manager for tour company Arctic Adventures, was likely formed by meltwater and shifting ice and features a spacious chamber made of high-clarity ice streaked with layers of volcanic ash from past volcanic eruptions.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
Alcaraz somehow clung on to hold serve, broke Fritz to win the set and then streaked away with the third, to consign Fritz to a 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 defeat.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for streaked
striped
Adjective
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Why else show nubby fleece trousers with a coordinating striped jacket, which nobody needs but would be a hoot to wear?—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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Knodel and 11 of her friends took up tables against a black-and-white striped wall Saturday morning, a doll sitting next to each of them.—
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Streaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streaked. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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