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whitewash

[wahyt-wosh, -wawsh, hwahyt-] / ˈwaɪtˌwɒʃ, -ˌwɔʃ, ˈʰwaɪt- /


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One of Ai's installations, "Whitewash", is also on display, featuring ancient Chinese earthenware jars.

From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2021

FTI’s Adam Cubbage was the author of a September 2017 email, dated a month before the October 2017 release of Whitewash.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2019

Ms. Thompson-Spires was inspired by James McCune Smith, a 19th-century abolitionist and doctor whose brief stories about various characters were published under the title “Heads of the Colored People, Done With a Whitewash Brush.”

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2018

Get Someone To Whitewash Your FenceMaybe the most memorable scene in Tom Sawyer comes when he lures all the boys passing by his house to help him paint the fence.

From Inc • Jul. 2, 2013

Burnham nicknamed Millet and his paint crews “the Whitewash Gang.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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