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The chanting was condemned by one fan group as a "stain on our game".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“East of the River” washes away the stain of criminalization that local media used to cheapen Ever’s life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

"It added insult to injury. I couldn't understand how an organisation that wants to protect the environment, can graffiti the earth and stain rocks which are millions of years old."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

When they returned through an airport or border, the stain of their original unlawful entry was erased.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

How much area does the stain take up?

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The end of the Great Depression was just 25 years in our rearview mirror, but the stains were still easily seen throughout rural Kentucky.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Resting in the sports hall in Villamanta, Margarita, 70, pointed to the stains on her T-shirt -- the same one she had been wearing for four days.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

It was at A&M — he was wearing this red silk shirt that had sweat stains under both arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Close to 40 years later, liquid Tide offered better dissolvability and improved technology to wash grease and oil stains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

As they waited their turn to speak, dark sweat stains blossomed under the arms of their uniforms.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

They shimmer from the pages like bright bits of stained glass, and their names are equally enchanting: common blue, painted lady, Queen of Spain fritillary, black-veined white and northern brown argus, among others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

But “those stained glass windows are the wife.”

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the tournament will also be remembered for a classless and churlish Argentina, which forever stained itself with a thuggish performance in the game and an ungracious one afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

According to legend, Mallory climbed the church tower at the age of seven and there are numerous stained glass windows in memory of members of his family.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

But Stevie's shirt was stained from lots of things: food, sweat, Magic Marker...Marcus.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

She said Greenpeace had painted over rocks and soil, staining them.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

It doesn’t come on a school-issued bun, nor does it come with the staining might of tomato sauce and ground beef.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Her burned bureau and the black soot staining the wall reignited her past trauma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

During weekly phone calls, I’d catch her in the middle of staining a table, reupholstering a chair, or rewiring a chandelier she’d found at a flea market.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024

It choked him like weeds and rot and colonies of vermin, clogging and staining him, stagnant and fetid, so that nothing so noble as love, or—gods above—forgiveness, could ever claim space in him.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor