whiten
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Paper mills rely on it to whiten wood pulp.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
For example, you can whiten teeth with a single tap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Their interlocking hands whiten as their grip tightens and Neta recalls what happened next.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
The cream, which contained ingredients to whiten the skin of European women, was sold off by the house and sed to create the skincare company of the same name.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Claudine's limbs whiten like rice grains, and her hair explodes out from the braid I put in, hitting the floor in one cascading wave.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Maybe I’ll still be kept warm by my summer odyssey come December, when frost whitens the lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
According to Greene’s tweet, the premium retouching option costs $11.99 and "whitens teeth, evens skin tone and removed blemishes and scars."
From Fox News ● Nov. 2, 2021
Poach fish gently in oil until it fully whitens and flakes easily, about 5 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2018
It pulls the debris out of the mouth, cleans and whitens teeth.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2016
Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends?
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Wash the navy beans and run hot water through them until they are slightly whitened.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
This causes visible whitened patches or blotches that are prone to sun damage.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2023
More common, however, are rough-edge rectangles made of brawny pencil strokes and dynamic cross-hatching and sometimes whitened by erasures and abrasions.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Simmer, do not stir, until all of the whey proteins have risen to the surface and whitened into a foam.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2021
In the bathroom mirror, he saw that even the rims of his nostrils had whitened; they looked like an oddly placed pair of spectacles.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Grohl was quizzed by the pupils about his favourite toothpaste, to which he answered "whitening", before the star told anecdotes including of the time he broke his leg falling off stage in 2015.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
After four hours, the teeth showed noticeable whitening.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
At the import expo, it showcased a new whitening toothpaste for the Chinese market, developed at Crest’s Beijing research institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
In food, calcium phosphate is used as a whitening agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Celia knew that Ofelia joined her mother at her dressing table, where they sat on their bony behinds and rubbed whitening cream into their dark, freckled faces.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
