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
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
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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
“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
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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
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
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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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