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tincture

[tingk-cher] / ˈtɪŋk tʃər /


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But the 29-year-old, who ordered lion's mane online to add to coffees at home, found it expensive and switched to drinking lion's mane tincture mixed into water instead.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2025

The psychiatrist kept referring to “the tincture of time,” promising we’d know more in three months, or six, or nine.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2024

Then I’ll spray my pillow and sheets with a handmade tincture of lavender, chamomile and saltwater to bring a restful sleep and sweet dreams.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2023

The tincture of time will primarily heal this problem.

From Slate Dec. 5, 2022

SCORPIUS: Well, it is said that if tincture of Demiguise and pearl dust meet. . . they burn.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

On the festival’s central “avenue,” I browsed stands selling mycological games, art, tinctures and clothing.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 16, 2025

Nowadays, any pseudoscientific tinctures or broths are about as good as you can expect from the U.S. health care system.

From Salon May 6, 2025

A few minutes later, I walked up the street to an herbal apothecary that offers rose quartz crystals alongside dropper-bottle tinctures labeled “Happiness.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2024

The whole plant is harvested fresh for tinctures and extracts.

From National Geographic Feb. 7, 2024

The women who worked for her stopped concocting tinctures and bottling oils and instead made vats of salve—a new recipe, of comfrey, lobelia and plantain, that Mother had concocted specifically for my father.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Lawrence bounds over to a shelf with several jars of a brown tinctured slurry, the results of which they’ll use to create a cacao perfume.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2025

Baehrel has a thing for molecular gastronomy; his small bites are dehydrated, infused, and tinctured on their way from lawn to mouth.

From BusinessWeek Dec. 12, 2013

But the celebration was tinctured with deep unease.

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2011

The mushroom rose high above dark bands of natural clouds, showing traces of brown and small brilliant pinpoints of light, tinctured cerise and pink by the dawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or one April, and a wild cherry-tree in blossom by an English hedge, a white cloud tinctured with rose, and in it moving a dozen tropical chaffinches; the petals were on the grass.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Here Gronk pantomimed forcibly tincturing a noncompliant Belichick.

From Slate Jan. 6, 2020

Perhaps Mother had taught me about it, when we were picking rosehips or tincturing hawthorn.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Enamelling or tincturing of the face to produce artificial beauty.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

His spirit was of that character that wins its way through life, tincturing every action with good-will for others, and seeking to promote the happiness of all around him in preference to his own.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various

Yellowness, tincturing her tho' nowise sick or sorry, iv.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton




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