color
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King: One person of color—was the person of color a woman or a man?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Regan denied those allegations, including that he mistreated women of color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Instead of adding pigments to produce color or applying persistent chemical coatings to control how surfaces interact with water, the researchers build those properties directly into the material's physical structure.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Researchers place color reference charts around newly planted coral to record the pigmentation, a method used to monitor its health and detect early signs of heat stress.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Lloyd kept asking, waving every color at me.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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After each attempt, Wordle uses colors to show how close the player is:
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
I have a lot of black in my collection, but recently I’ve been wearing other colors like military green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It is available in two colors, "star white" and "night sky."
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
There is the tunnel vision, that narrowing of the entire clamoring world down to 100 yards of grass and a single question of whether the men in my colors will get there.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
It simply meant that the tulips were striped in different colors, rather like Mr. Blake’s tyger, although one could no more mistake a tulip for a tyger than a tyger for a turnip.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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But the task of “sorting out this vast accumulation of brightly colored little bits of paper,” he thought, would still be a “second childhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It would be easy to look at all of this — the card tables, homemade jingles, wagons stacked with brightly colored boxes — and see only an exceptionally cute American ritual.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
But Purcell isn’t the only systems failure that has colored Supreme Court elections cases of late.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
It featured a futuristic barren desert-like landscape filled with sand punctuated by large colored glass bulbs that resemble marbles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
There are two vending machines snug against the wall, both of them illuminated in a fluorescent radiance, shiny with their rows of brightly colored snack wrappers and bottled sodas.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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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
Helen Guedez and her brother have chosen to disregard the ominous letter coloring the wall of the building that previously housed their dad, sister and grandmother.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“If you try and get the food dye, the food coloring right now, it’s very hard to achieve,” said Jesse Spellman, the co-owner of Utopia Bagels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Their vivid blue coloring is a result of the microscopic scales on the backs of their wings, which reflect light.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
After seeing it, Michelangelo is said to have praised Titian’s coloring and style but criticized his sense of design.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Vocabulary lists containing color
Physics - Introductory
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Physics - Middle School
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