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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

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

"I measured quite low, even though my OCD means when I am triggered, I'm cleaning for two to three hours with pure bleach and I'm gasping for air," he said.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

At 7:00 am, relatives brought packages: deodorant, toothpaste, soap and shampoo in labeled plastic bags, plus disinfectant and bleach -- provisions essential for maintaining hygiene in the latrines of tiny cells.

From Barron's Jan. 10, 2026

This pillow smelled like long lonely years full of bleach.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

"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

Wooden balconies above the bar were bleached white from the heat, and several trees outside were scorched of all their leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 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

On the ground at the base of the pole were bleached fragments of mullet skeletons that had been picked clean and discarded by the birds.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

When I drift away from the fire to find a place to throw down my sleeping bag, the first faint smear of dawn is already bleaching the rim of the northeastern sky.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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