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dye

[dahy] / daɪ /
NOUN
coloring agent
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WEAK
bleach whitener


VERB
change color with mixture
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Digital disaffection has bled into our lives like dye onto white linen, creeping through every inch of the fabric until it’s covered in amorphous patterns of color; some beautiful, some painfully ugly.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Instead, they mark the rodents with dye and call them things like "dans_hat", "open_kite" and "Citroën".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

But the new natural dye blend won’t contain blue or brown.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

These separation processes are essential for tasks such as drug purification, textile dye treatment, and food production.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

I peel away the edge of the bandage, revealing the puncture wound—no longer bleeding, thankfully—and the patch of blue dye that doesn’t seem to be fading.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

She marked the cells with different fluorescent dyes and then isolated those that reacted to activin.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

But they bought more chewing gum, mouthwash and hair dyes - products that counter common GLP-1 side effects like thinning hair and bad breath.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

As consumers move away from artificial dyes, Mars is releasing a new line of M&M’s without synthetic colors later this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Last April, the FDA announced that it would phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes by the end of 2026.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2026

Into a large gourd they placed her cut hair and head dyes, okra, ashes, and wisps of dried corn silks.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

His hair, previously dyed jet black, had gone entirely silver and his thick mustache had been replaced by a scruffy beard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

"The lagoon was dyed regularly between 2017 and 2024... but this was removed from the annual plan last year following lower reports of anti-social behaviour," he added.

From BBC May 28, 2026

“Betye had dyed her hair pink and they said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know your mom was punk.’

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

The woman was pretty in an upper-Manhattan way: tan skin with careful rouge and dyed brown hair.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

With spinning, weaving, dyeing and knitting facilities -- the Glo-Djigbe site exported its first garments in 2024 for the French retailer Kiabi, followed by other international brands such as US Polo.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Unlike conventional textiles, where color is applied through dyeing, sea silk generates its golden hue from the arrangement of proteins within the fiber itself.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

Placed against other modern threats posed by media consolidation, the notion of whether dyeing iconic black-and-white movies heralded the beginning of cinema’s end seems quaint.

From Salon May 8, 2026

She doesn’t regret any of it — except for dyeing her hair orange, she confesses.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2025

“Either way,” he said, “I think you have an inalienable right to know that dyeing your hair is against the dress code.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia




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