bleach
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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
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
To that end, these cargos are as intentional and well-lived as a perfectly executed skate trick: they’re hand-dyed, but also arrive bearing natural bleach, oil and scuff marks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
In 2017, they bought a former steel works and an abandoned bleach factory next door for $25 million and started hosting the Mirage in the lot between them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
When the tub was partly full, I carried it over to the elephants’ pathway, at the entrance, put it on the ground, and poured in most of a gallon of “bloody Jik”—laundry bleach.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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If the stain persists, you have three options: Call a professional refinisher; there are stronger bleaches, but they aren’t easily available.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
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
Explore hands-on activities with the UW community, tour the Burke Museum fish collections, learn why coral bleaches and more at the Students Explore Aquatic Sciences’ open house 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022
Dr. DiCaprio does not recommend special produce washes, bleaches or detergents.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
It lightens the polish to a bright vomit green and bleaches the carpet surrounding it.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Then I went through another breakup and shaved my head and bleached it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Madonna sings about the "bleached blonde dirty roots" of her 1980s image on the album's closing track L.E.S.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
"If you're being bleached before you've even recovered and been able to produce juveniles again, then that's only a downwards trajectory from there," said Oakley.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Returning to Sausalito, the team passed bleached whale bones on an Angel Island beach, a grim reminder of what they were up against.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Behind him, men and women with bleached, slicked-back hair and matching uniforms stood in a stiff row, hands folded over each other at their waist.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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That includes droughts, floods, infrastructure damage, coral bleaching, wildfires, and agricultural and health effects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Scientists have already connected them with widespread coral bleaching, large-scale deaths of marine organisms, harmful algal blooms and major disruptions to fisheries and aquaculture.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Wildfires, floods, melting ice caps, heat waves, the bleaching of ocean reefs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
There are some corals globally that have proven resilient to warmer waters, but they cannot make up for the losses caused by rounds of bleaching.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
With a cloud of bright spots bleaching out my sight, I pulled the driver’s door open the rest of the way.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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