color
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“Listening to everyone. It didn’t matter where you came from, which color you are. They were open and gave time to everyone they met.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings out the score’s color and propulsion, and the excellent Met Opera chorus creates the seething world of the dead, occasionally playing kazoos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
At one party, a neighbor of mine, a tattoo artist who had no tattoos of his own, generously lent me four tufted beanbags in a demure oatmeal color.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
For most stars, color is closely tied to temperature.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
But now, the color has seeped out of Davey and left us with a canvas of gray on gray: gray, brooding clouds hanging from gray, murky skies.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Without them, corals lose their vibrant colors, struggle to obtain enough nourishment, and become more susceptible to harmful algae.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Startups are using gene editing and sensors to make plants emit optical signals or change colors when they are under stress from pests or disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
These allow selected wavelengths of light to reach the detectors and can separate incoming light into its individual colors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
On tabletops with less abstract design, such as one with a skull depicted, differences in glazing and firing mean there are variations in the hue and colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
It's like a kaleidoscope, he thought, as the colors swirled in the light of his desk lamp.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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Dots, however, were pitched as brightly colored cute cartoons meant to function as digital assistants for people with busy lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Artificial food dyes, too, are hard to do without, because consumers reliably prefer brightly colored foods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
During his decades-long career, Max created brightly colored graphic images and was credited with capturing the essence of the 1960s "summer of love" and psychedelia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Values of colored gemstones have risen since the pandemic, following constraints in mining.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
But as he watched, there rose from the water a herd of horses; horses with long tails and fins, colored silver and sea-green, leaping like dolphins from the water.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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The genre is known for sweets with distinct shapes, tastes and textures, all of which are made without artificial coloring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
These products may contain ingredients including preservatives, artificial coloring, flavor enhancers, and emulsifiers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Food and Drug Administration, which asked companies to more quickly remove red dye No. 3 — a similar synthetic food coloring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Helen Guedez and her brother have chosen to disregard the ominous letter coloring the wall of the building that previously housed their dad, sister and grandmother.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
That place in their minds that had worked their mahalath transformations was coloring Dreamer’s Weep with their snatched and grabbed happiness.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Vocabulary lists containing color
Physics - Introductory
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