bleach
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We dyed our hair with food color and bleach and kept it straight with egg whites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
When the algae are stressed by heat or pollution, however, they leave, causing the coral to "bleach" and become vulnerable to disease and death.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
One began to boil a kettle and emptied the contents into a bucket, along with a cap of bleach.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
The Christmas-tree plantation was dark as eclipses and whiffed of bleach.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
Coral bleaches as a heat stress response and scientists hope most of the coral will recover from the current event, said David Wachenfeld, chief scientist at the authority, which manages the reef ecosystem.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022
The disinfectants, bleaches and sanitizers we’ve relied on during the pandemic can irritate our eyes, skin and throat, not to mention ruin some of our favorite clothing.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2021
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
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In contrast, the bleached fragments that were kept apart died.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
For the technique to work as demonstrated, every bleached coral would need access to a healthy, genetically identical counterpart.
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
Stockings, smallclothes, silken tunic, padded jerkin, all fresh-washed and bleached.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures cause corals to lose the beneficial algae living inside their tissues.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Researchers could then deliver large quantities of these algae to damaged corals after bleaching events, potentially allowing them to recover much faster.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Since then, global ocean temperatures have soared to unprecedented highs and the worst coral bleaching episode on record between 2023 and 2025 caused widespread mortality across reefs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to climate change, which is heating the world's oceans and increasing the frequency and intensity of damaging bleaching events.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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