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dye

[dahy] / daɪ /
NOUN
coloring agent
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WEAK
bleach whitener


VERB
change color with mixture
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From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“They could have been apple-shaped before, and now it’s like their entire midsection is dramatically smaller than it ever was before,” said Harris, the owner of Renegade Bridal & Dye Lab in Houston.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Dye said Miller was a "hard-working, decent man", who had found himself involved in a "freak accident" which had taken a mental and physical toll on the defendant.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

A 2022 color additive petition filed by two dozen food safety and health advocates found that Red Dye No. 3 caused cancer in laboratory male rats exposed to high levels of the dye.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

Marina was about eighteen when she married Sergey Raskov, another engineer she’d met at her first job in the Butyrsky Aniline Dye Plant; she took his name to become Marina Raskova.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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