bleach
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In a sport full of elaborate buzz cuts and eye-searing bleach jobs, the striking blond mane, pulled into a tight bun, became one of the enduring images of the tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
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
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
I was pretty sure hair bleach was not something a couple of kids like us should be messing with.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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“When someone has the yeast infection on their skin, the skin often bleaches temporarily.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
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
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
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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Romina, the more rebellious of the two, had bleached streaks in her long, dark hair, which she would often leave uncovered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Then I went through another breakup and shaved my head and bleached it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
Retinal cells at the back of the eyes which detect the light can get bleached, and take a while to recover.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
A long cloak flowed from his shoulders, bleached as white as bone.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
If not this year, "it's almost 100 percent that soon in Okinawa, all around the world, we will have another mass bleaching event," the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University professor told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
From "heatwave simulators" to ecological bootcamps, scientists and conservationists are trying ways to revive and reinforce the famous coral reefs off Japan's Okinawa, decimated by climate-driven bleaching two summers ago.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The lights in the office grew brighter and brighter, bleaching out the memory.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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