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bleach

[bleech] / blitʃ /


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If you keep feeding wild birds, it’s vital to regularly clean all feeding surfaces and equipment using domestic bleach.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

She said the overflowing and soiled bathrooms were so disgusting that she had to use the little money she had on her to purchase bleach and disinfectants for her family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

People have been urged to stay away from a flooded quarry where the water has a pH level "comparable to bleach", following a surge in visitors over the bank holiday weekend.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Residents in Patagonia know how to protect themselves from the virus, which they refer to as "the hanta," by airing out sheds and cleaning areas with bleach.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

She carried the bags to the entry door, where someone had left a garden sprayer full of Clorox bleach along with more bags.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

If your husband won’t take this responsibility, if instead he dumps the anxiety on you, then that’s what needs attention — not the specifics of who bleaches the house.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022

Coral bleaches as a response to heat stress and scientists hope most of the coral will recover from the latest event.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

At altitudes less than 1 km in the atmosphere, conditions are relatively warm and humid so smoke particles are often not very viscous and brown carbon bleaches quickly.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2022

At the end, the audiences from both parts returned to the bleaches for a bleak look at that ravishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2020

It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet surrounding it.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In contrast, the bleached fragments that were kept apart died.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

"The question we wanted to answer is, once a coral has bleached, what can we do?"

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

The new findings suggest another possibility: helping bleached corals recover quickly enough to survive the dangerous period following a marine heat wave.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, it is possible to extract healthy symbionts and culture them -- and the team is now thinking about ways to re-introduce them en masse to bleached coral.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The boy thought about that for a while as he looked at the moon and the bleached sands.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

According to a study published on October 14 in Science Advances, this represents the fastest documented recovery from coral bleaching.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures cause corals to lose the beneficial algae living inside their tissues.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Duwai said water temperatures reached up to 39C during a heatwave earlier this year, and there was widespread bleaching of the thousands of planted corals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Vanuatu and Samoa have moved to protect their corals from imminent bleaching.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Knees knocking like a skeleton on Halloween, embarrassment bleaching my black cheeks red, eyes stapled to the page in front of me.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes


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