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
Investigators also found broken glass scattered through the home, a shattered microwave, and bleach wipes and spray bottles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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
"People think we only get missiles and shelters. But we have holidays too. Taking photos, drinking mulled wine, eating tasty food, it's nice to switch," said Ovchinnikova, 25 and with bleach blond hair.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
He was wearing a Racal suit, and he had a pump sprayer filled with bleach.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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
Sitting up, I see the stranger standing in front of the building, admiring it below a sun that bleaches them both.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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
Denner resin slowly bleaches your teeth, so if a sweet- eater lives long enough for their teeth to grow fully white, chances are they have already sold everything they have worth selling.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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It reflected a man with bleached blonde curls who left home in Barbados as a teenager to pursue his dreams in England.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Liu was older, 7 inches taller, with bleached hair and piercings, practically unrecognizable from the wispy child she’d been at U.S. nationals in 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
A study published on Tuesday showed that more than half of the world's coral reefs were bleached between 2014-2017 -- a record-setting episode now being eclipsed by another series of devastating heatwaves.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
One pendant evokes the sea with its swirl of mother-of-pearl, spiral seashells and rivulets of pale gray leather arranged above a piece of bleached coral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
The security guy double takes on Dalton’s passport, because his hair is brown in the photo, but now it’s bleached blond.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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
By manipulating each tank's temperature and pH levels, scientists can simulate future heatwaves and induce coral bleaching to see how fish and other organisms adapt.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Wildfires, floods, melting ice caps, heat waves, the bleaching of ocean reefs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
"The average sea temperature for the last few years is the same as what it was at the peak of the 1998 global bleaching event," said Oakley.
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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