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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

The black leather shoes I had bought for fifty cents at the Dollar General Store were held together with safety pins, which I’d tried to blacken with a Magic Marker so you wouldn’t notice them.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

Nearby, it blackens metal road signs, they said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

"The extent of the destruction blackens our hearts, I apologise for the losses," Mitsotakis said in a televised address, promising his government would stand by all those hurt by the blazes.

From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019

The storm that blackens the horizon is sweeping toward us at a frightening pace, its lightning forking closer with each passing second.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

As of about 6:45 p.m., the fire had blackened about 140 acres and was 7% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

On Tuesday, a silver cross on a long chain hung from the pine tree’s bark, which was peeling and blackened from the blaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

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

His armored skirt was made from thousands of blackened, twisted bones, woven together like chain links and clasped in place by a belt of interlocking monstrous arms.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

The midday gray blackening, then brightening, on account of a remote and veiled disk of sun and moon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

It takes a while before we see the telltale signs: the camp watchtower, and later the flames blackening the sky.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023

It was the kind that the clans call the smoke-frost: an icy breath that descends from the High Mountains at the start of winter, blackening berries and sending small creatures scuttling for their burrows.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver