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tincture

[tingk-cher] / ˈtɪŋk tʃər /


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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

This morning, I rubbed some herbal tincture onto my chest.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Her Anima Mundi Herbals is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the company manufactures herbal tinctures, elixirs, teas, herbal supplements and other botanicals.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 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

Black shelves held curious bottles of tonics and powders and tinctures that on any other day would draw Gia's attention.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort of likely absurdity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The foreshore of the village is rugged with boulders richly tinctured with iron oxide, and often having a scoriaceous surface.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

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

The adoption of the Babylonian system of writing must have worked powerfully on the side of tincturing the Canaanitish language with Babylonian words.

From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

He had filled one glass and was tincturing it with syrup when he caught again that confiding smile of Josie's, full upon him as the beams of a noon-day sun.

From The Fortune Hunter by Louis Joseph Vance

After due consideration these gentlemen prepared and published their report, with much official flourish, each member doubtless tincturing it with some favorite theory of his own.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou




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