In rallies at Mr Abbas's West Bank headquarters, the yellow flags of his Fatah group are increasingly speckled with Hamas's green.

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My cassava version carried abundantly flavourful chicken, stewed in a garlicky creamy white sauce made with lashings of butter and white wine and speckled with herbs.

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Star speckled with model Selita Ebanks as the phoenix, narration by Nicki Minaj, and writing credits for Hype Williams, the video is thought out and decorated with metaphors.

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Mine was hard and speckled with flour stones.

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There is no narrative in the 1971 picture of the interior of an oven, just the white-speckled black enamel with a bit of food stain on the steel racks.

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Sauntering across endless prairies, with snow-speckled mountains in the distance, was profoundly peaceful, and the old-fashioned physical work remarkably satisfying.

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He wore a wig like a big woolly hat, a red floppy bow tie, a yellow speckled vest, and a black coat, and he was emphatically gesturing with white-gloved hands.

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