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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

We’d only know given the tincture of time.

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

This morning, I rubbed some herbal tincture onto my chest.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Even though she and other women are able to read, write, and keep ledgerbooks by this date, the complicated and often secret tinctures concocted for fabrics remain the province of men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

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

The whole plant is harvested fresh for tinctures and extracts.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024

The oils were much more expensive than the tinctures; it was devastating when she had to throw out a batch because she couldn’t remember whether she’d added the spruce.

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

It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort of likely absurdity.

From Time Magazine Archive

“For the sake of a pretty word he would not spare his own father,” as a Russian proverb phrases it, and his pretty words or puns were usually tinctured with malice.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

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

I am tincturing those letters with too much Peter.

From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter

Enamelling or tincturing of the face to produce artificial beauty.

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

Within that cave, where Penfold slept during his guardian's absence, the fires darted, tincturing with red the silver of the moonbeams against the sable wall of cliff.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena




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