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brown

[broun] / braʊn /
ADJECTIVE
of a dark color with a yellow-red hue
Synonyms
STRONG
amber bay beige bister brick bronze buff chestnut chocolate cinnamon cocoa coffee copper drab dust ecru fawn ginger hazel henna khaki mahogany nut brown ochre puce russet rust sepia sorrel tan toast umber
WEAK
auburn burnt sienna snuff-colored tawny terra-cotta

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Those law-enforcement agencies that have worked hard to build bridges with youth, immigrant, and Black and brown communities are seeing their efforts undermined by ICE.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026

An AFP photographer saw FBI tactical agents on Sunday evening entering a two-story, brown house in Torrance, California associated with the suspect.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

His hope is for the competition to take the sport mainstream so that "boys, girls, brown, black, anyone from all walks of life" are inspired to try fencing.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Josh pals around with the club’s impossibly wealthy members, serves them rare brown liquors and flies off with them to exotic locales at a moment’s notice.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Right now she was even wearing makeup: a tiny smear of brown over her eyes, black on her eyelashes, a smudge of red on her cheeks.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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