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A new scientific review suggests that Polygonum multiflorum, a root used in traditional Chinese medicine for more than a thousand years to "blacken hair and nourish essence," could be a promising alternative for managing AGA.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

These incidents may temporarily blacken the eyes of the NBA and Major League Baseball but sports gambling is here to stay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

But as the ghostly figure draws nearer, its skin rots and its eyes blacken.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

“It seems to be designed to blacken the name of an actor who has not breached a contract or missed a day’s shooting in a career spanning 20 years,” he said in written arguments.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

When the flames had licked at Rattleshirt, the ruby at her throat had grown so hot that she had feared her own flesh might start to smoke and blacken.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

When the ice blackens it's ability to reflect the sun diminishes and this accelerates the melting of the ice.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

In a clearing of Colombia's Pacific jungle, the dense canopy encircles an area of desolation left by a clandestine refinery, where oil waste blackens everything underfoot, seeping into the soil and coating the vegetation.

From Reuters ● Dec. 26, 2022

A plume of smoke rises up above the streetlamps and blackens the sky.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019

Partridges, pheasants and quail to roast; pigeons to bring to tenderness slowly with red wine and onions, and quails to split, skewer and grill until their skin blackens and their bones crunch.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017

Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

"People see the blackened vegetation and assume that's the main impact, but the real story is below our feet," said Jones.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Four Marines crouch in the foreground surrounded by the blackened remains of burned trees; in the top two-thirds of the picture the black-and-white smoke of the blast billows upward, beautiful in its destruction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

A hunting lodge stands beside pine forest burned by a wildfire that started July 22 and blackened about 104,000 acres in and around Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Supermarket shelves stacked with products blackened from the fire were stacked up beneath a cratered ceiling and behind blown-out windows.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Many paratroopers, their faces blackened so they couldn’t be seen in the dark, landed as well.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

That’s why even when a fire is 100% contained, it can still be blackening acres of land, and firefighters can still be battling to keep it from getting out of control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

Algae lying dormant on the ice starts blooming in spring blackening large areas of the ice.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

In contrast - and blackening the Tory mood still further - is Labour's relatively newly discovered knack of winning where they need to win in a general election.

From BBC ● May 3, 2024

Hawaiian-style huli huli chicken, barbecued on the grill out front, wanted a bit more blackening, but still: tasty, gently sweet, a little spice.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

One day she took a can of stove blackening and the brush and closed herself in the bedroom where she copiously blackened her left breast with the stove polish.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith