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This can make sunscreen formulas less stable and cause the particles to scatter visible light, producing the white or gray residue that is especially noticeable on darker skin tones.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Now that he’s a bit wrinkly and gray he shows promise of being a startlingly persuasive character actor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

And despite still being in a legal gray zone, it’s finally launched—with Heidecker at the helm.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

One day, we drove to Little Italy — what’s left of it — in my rattly gray Honda and found a shop that felt sufficiently old-school.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Betsie’s face was gray with weariness, and she stumbled as we marched.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

On an afternoon that was cooler and grayer than Thursday, the woman ranked No. 1 in the world got back on track.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

But gravity-defying themes such as semiconductors in recent weeks have lured older, grayer investors as well as Wall Street pros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

In prediction markets, the rules are considerably grayer, as the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance detailed last month.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026

Marcus Mariota’s hair is grayer now than when he entered the NFL as a highly touted prospect and a potential face of a franchise.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

Joanna Landry could feel her hair getting grayer by the minute.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements

Presumably the same is true of the grayest day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

More than 1 in 5 people are over 65, a rate on par with some of the world’s grayest nations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

It makes a great coffee table book, one that can help inspire on even the grayest of days.

From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022

Itami is one of several localities that have turned to electronic tracking as Japan, the world’s grayest nation, confronts an epidemic of dementia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

Through the grayest gloom golden palaces rose before him, silver pavements shone beneath his feet, jewelled gates unfolded on golden hinges turning, and he wandered forth into a fair country.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026

As we follow the cat on her solitary journey through a wind-tossed landscape of muted grays and blues, the question of what a small cat needs takes on a more philosophical bent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

She occasionally paints in acrylic directly onto acoustic panels, sometimes in muted grays and whites that very nearly appear to blend into the wall.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

Nearby was a cluster of men wearing mismatched uniforms, the greens, grays, and blues almost indistinguishable from my distance.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

By 2003, on Mars, his hair has grayed and receded, and the wrinkles have multiplied and deepened.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023

The fire department noted that the large amounts of logs and brush inside the landfill helped produce the prodigious plumes of smoke that further grayed out the sky well into Tuesday.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

It’s shot in faded, slightly grayed colors, as if it was left out in the rain.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

Nury Martinez I realized he went grayed out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

A bolt of white heat hit her and she grayed, then dissipated into the air.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

The federal government reported America’s total fertility rate dropped to 1.57, sparking alarm about a graying, shrinking population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

It was hard to tell who was happier: the current team or those graying alums, proud to at last have company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeff Schmid has found a silver lining in America’s graying demographics: All of those extra visits to the doctor are good for the economy.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

The fine arts have long struggled with a so-called graying audience, and have moved mountains to innovate in ways that keep the genres fresh in order to attract younger, excitable crowds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

He looked a little like my grandfather, not as heavy, but his face, the way his hair was graying, even the way he moved.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe