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orange

adjective as in shaded with a combination of red and yellow

noun as in combination of red and yellow

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Approved seats carry a clear orange label, on which the codes are printed, to indicate they have been put through EU safety testing and can therefore be legally sold on the UK market.

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To the north, a sickly orange haze hung along the horizon, a reminder of the inferno that had reduced parts of their school to a ragged tangle of charred masonry, metal and wood.

A guard once explained that detainees wearing orange, like him, could be criminals.

What Torres dubs as “relaxed” green, “commercial-portrayals-of-joy” yellow, “lusty and ragey” red, “teenage” orange, “soft” beige and “mysterious” purple are all accompanied by playful examples of behaviors, objects and societal conditioning that represent each color.

Over the last three years the couple has been traveling the country in a bright orange school bus emblazoned with the slogans “Save Lives,” “Enough Is Enough” and “Stop Gun Violence.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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