blacken

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A new scientific review suggests that Polygonum multiflorum, a root used in traditional Chinese medicine for more than a thousand years to "blacken hair and nourish essence," could be a promising alternative for managing AGA.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2026

These incidents may temporarily blacken the eyes of the NBA and Major League Baseball but sports gambling is here to stay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The ban, combined with an existing prohibition on fireworks in unincorporated areas, is meant to discourage would-be pyromaniacs from accidentally laying waste to their neighbors’ houses or setting off wildfires that blacken hundreds of acres.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023

But as the ghostly figure draws nearer, its skin rots and its eyes blacken.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

I had callused my hands; I had scratched dirt to blacken the nails, which I cut straight across to make stubby fingers.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston