tincture
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But the 29-year-old, who ordered lion's mane online to add to coffees at home, found it expensive and switched to drinking lion's mane tincture mixed into water instead.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
The psychiatrist kept referring to “the tincture of time,” promising we’d know more in three months, or six, or nine.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
Then I’ll spray my pillow and sheets with a handmade tincture of lavender, chamomile and saltwater to bring a restful sleep and sweet dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
The tincture of time will primarily heal this problem.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022
He gargles with camomile tea, coats the roof of his mouth with a tincture of myrrh and rubs Mentholatum over, his chest, nose, gums and tongue.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Even though she and other women are able to read, write and keep ledgerbooks by this date, the complicated and often secret tinctures concocted for fabrics remain the province of men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Most preshow work happens in her “dog room,” a basement utility space where pet scrubs and tinctures abound like makeup at Sephora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Once seated, guests are presented with a wooden box that includes 10 sample tinctures of their “Mexico Through the Senses” cocktail menu.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
Edible mushrooms have become a staple of the supplement aisle, with powdered mushroom mixes, concentrated tinctures, and other goods that boast a smorgasbord of health benefits.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 31, 2024
For the first time in my life I had long stretches in which to learn—without having to scrap, or strain tinctures, or check inventory for Randy.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Lawrence bounds over to a shelf with several jars of a brown tinctured slurry, the results of which they’ll use to create a cacao perfume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Baehrel has a thing for molecular gastronomy; his small bites are dehydrated, infused, and tinctured on their way from lawn to mouth.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 12, 2013
But the celebration was tinctured with deep unease.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2011
That valuable reference, generously tinctured with the author's wit, has not been allowed to go out of date; it was revised only last year by Sir Ernest Gowers, himself an eminent lexicographer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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While other nations as a rule did not adopt the German idea of the superman, they were usually much more tinctured with that teaching than they suspected.
From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Here Gronk pantomimed forcibly tincturing a noncompliant Belichick.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2020
Perhaps Mother had taught me about it, when we were picking rosehips or tincturing hawthorn.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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A few of us, however, could not prevent an element of pity from tincturing our amusement.
From Grey Roses by Henry Harland
The Nestorian Christians and the Syrian monks became the scholars for the Mohammedans, and the Mohammedan faith was clothed in Greek forms and received a thorough tincturing of Greek philosophic thought.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Enamelling or tincturing of the face to produce artificial beauty.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
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