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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

Using X-ray imaging and contrast dye for guidance, doctors advance a tiny catheter through the femoral artery until it reaches the genicular arteries around the knee.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

The issues set out by the Breastfeeding Network, Royal College of Radiologists and Society of Radiographers point to questions around the contrast dye that is injected before a breast MRI.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

“If you try and get the food dye, the food coloring right now, it’s very hard to achieve,” said Jesse Spellman, the co-owner of Utopia Bagels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

He showed us batik, letting us paint wax patterns on cloth and T-shirts and spill dye everywhere.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

“That the women make cuts and bums on their faces and bodies to make pictures on them. Then they put colored dyes in the cuts and bums. They think it makes them look beautiful.”

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

I dyed it for a while when I started seeing a fair amount of gray coming in.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

In a 2020 UK study, 51% of employers admitted turning down a candidate because of the way they looked, with managers indicating they had been influenced by scruffy clothes or poorly dyed hair.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Some attendees arrived with dyed crimson hair, others with orange or pink.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2026

She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Launching into the world of modeling soon after, she divorced her husband and made a history-defining decision: dyeing her brown hair platinum blonde.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

The researchers hope their findings will encourage more thorough testing of clothing before it reaches consumers and push manufacturers to adopt safer alternatives during the dyeing process.

From Science Daily Apr. 2, 2026

I could try to combat inescapable existential dread by dyeing my hair.

From Salon Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2025

I gave one to Rontu and on the way back to the canoe gathered purple sea urchins to use for dyeing.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell




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