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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

We’d only know given the tincture of time.

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

For as long as I could remember, whenever I was in pain, whether from a cut or a toothache, Mother would make a tincture of lobelia and skullcap.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

On the festival’s central “avenue,” I browsed stands selling mycological games, art, tinctures and clothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

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

The whole plant is harvested fresh for tinctures and extracts.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024

Even if Wylan didn’t love chemistry, he knew more about tinctures and compounds than anyone in the crew other than Kuwei, and Matthias couldn’t understand half of what Kuwei said.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

The mushroom rose high above dark bands of natural clouds, showing traces of brown and small brilliant pinpoints of light, tinctured cerise and pink by the dawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neither the plain man nor the cultured man, if he happens not to be tinctured with science, finds his world a duality.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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

This tincturing seizes first the most spiritual and advances steadily until the whole man is transformed.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

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

Within that cave, where Penfold slept during his guardian's absence, the fires darted, tincturing with red the silver of the moonbeams against the sable wall of cliff.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena




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