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coloring

[kuhl-er-ing] / ˈkʌl ər ɪŋ /
NOUN
coloration
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These products may contain ingredients including preservatives, artificial coloring, flavor enhancers, and emulsifiers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Food and Drug Administration, which asked companies to more quickly remove red dye No. 3 — a similar synthetic food coloring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Jobs, goods and services have all but disappeared, with uncertainty coloring the future.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

People who had higher intakes of beta-carotene as a food coloring had a 44% increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, compared with those who had a lower intake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Kendra had turned down her initial offer, since it sounded childish, like coloring.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

If the Renaissance had been known as the Resurrection, might we be more aware of the period’s metaphysical colorings?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

Examples that can be found around us include various amino acids, including monosodium glutamate, food proteins, enzymes, flavoring compounds, food colorings, and bioactive substances.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024

Those concerns have began to spur the demand for natural colorings — and there was Mexico’s cochineal dye all along.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

You can also dye the icing with natural food colorings, from red and orange to green and blue; more on those variations here.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022

These alloys took the forms of figures, animals and emblems, having the strangest colorings, like the hilts and scabbards of Japanese swords carved in shakudo and shibuichi.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw




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