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bleach

[bleech] / blitʃ /


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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

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

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

The smell of fake lemon cleaner and bleach assaulted my nostrils as the sheet settled around me.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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

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 Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

Dr. DiCaprio does not recommend special produce washes, bleaches or detergents.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 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

Two fragments taken from the same coral colony, one healthy and the other bleached, had fallen against each other in an aquarium.

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

Instead, once enough algae entered the bleached fragment, they reproduced rapidly inside their new host and restored its energy supply.

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

She reads a couple of very vivid paragraphs about the “whiter-than-white, nearly alabaster, snowy, bleached Alps” in Switzerland, where her family went on vacation.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to human-driven climate change, which is warming the world's oceans and increasing the frequency and intensity of damaging bleaching events.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

According to a study published on October 14 in Science Advances, this represents the fastest documented recovery from coral bleaching.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

But the arrival of a very strong El Nino could bring a return to more widespread bleaching -- including in Florida's waters.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

That includes droughts, floods, infrastructure damage, coral bleaching, wildfires, and agricultural and health effects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Knees knocking like a skeleton on Halloween, embarrassment bleaching my black cheeks red, eyes stapled to the page in front of me.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes


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