blanched

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Stan Winborne, superintendent of Granville County Public Schools in North Carolina, blanched to find YouTube was a top-accessed site in an audit he commissioned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

To prepare the samples, potatoes were rinsed, peeled, cut into strips, blanched, and salted.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

To Carter’s displeasure, even they blanched at his desire to do it in less than 90 days.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

Larger veggies, like blanched green beans or cauliflower florets, make for a great pickle-y snack.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023

Biologists might have blanched at trying to describe the “gene molecule” on purely hypothetical grounds—but what physicist could resist taking a ramble in weird, risky territory?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee