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His hair, previously dyed jet black, had gone entirely silver and his thick mustache had been replaced by a scruffy beard.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