bleach
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In a sport full of elaborate buzz cuts and eye-searing bleach jobs, Erling’s striking blond mane, pulled into a tight bun, became one of the enduring images of the tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
We dyed our hair with food color and bleach and kept it straight with egg whites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
Residents in Patagonia know how to protect themselves from the virus, which they refer to as "the hanta," by airing out sheds and cleaning areas with bleach.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
And the corridor outside the room smelled like gravy and the bleach they use to clean the toilets at school.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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“When someone has the yeast infection on their skin, the skin often bleaches temporarily.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
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
Explore hands-on activities with the UW community, tour the Burke Museum fish collections, learn why coral bleaches and more at the Students Explore Aquatic Sciences’ open house 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022
Sitting up, I see the stranger standing in front of the building, admiring it below a sun that bleaches them both.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
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
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"Once beneficial algae enter bleached corals, they don't just spread out," said Palumbi.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Where the fragments touched, the bleached coral began regaining its color.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
During the second week of contact, the beneficial algae living inside the bleached fragments doubled in number approximately every four days.
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
It was plastic, a soupy bobbing island of it, bags mostly, soda bottles, laundry detergent containers, all the same bleached gray.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures cause corals to lose the beneficial algae living inside their tissues.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Researchers could then deliver large quantities of these algae to damaged corals after bleaching events, potentially allowing them to recover much faster.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Vanuatu and Samoa have moved to protect their corals from imminent bleaching.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
So far, this summer the program has planted 615 coral, with 228 of those part of the thermal bleaching study.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
She had talked with Frank about it late one night while he lay in bed whistling some ragtag tune and she sat before the mirror and rubbed bleaching cream into her skin.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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