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“From that point on, there’s a tinge of darkness,” composer Rock Burwell said of that signal moment in “Obsession.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The song offers “nostalgia with a tinge of hope,” explains Ceylon Andi Hickman, a 30-year-old England supporter in London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Though he thinks many students genuinely like the drinks, he says some are attracted to their novelty and drink them with a tinge of irony, joking about being "obsessed" with them.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Long before apps like Alarmy, makers of alarm clocks recognized that some of their products needed a tinge of menace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Lourdes turns, expecting to find her father at her shoulder but she sees only the dusk settling on the tops of the oak trees, the pink tinge of sliding darkness.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

That this sourness tinges the latest “Joe Schmo Show” may be unavoidable.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

There are even a few fun science fiction tinges, as the McCunes rely on handmade technology that seems beguilingly alien for the era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

Defective plumbing that tinges water brown or creates an odd taste can also turn people away from the faucet.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

The way the pale rice tinges brown with vinegar as it moves through his hands.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022

Still, that just made the next step all the more urgent, especially with the faintest of orange tinges creeping into the sky.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

But when Good was killed, our anger was tinged with fear.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“Toy Story 5” doesn’t overdo its lachrymose side; it’s at least half a breezy comedy, albeit one tinged with worry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

While City fans were clearly delighted with the victory - and Shaw's significant part in it - it would have been tinged with anxiety over her future.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Shelley’s story is so moving precisely because it’s tinged with firsthand knowledge of the despair that comes with being misunderstood and othered at no fault of one’s own.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

She is barefoot and her skin, encrusted with sand, is tinged a faint blue.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

I put a pan on the stove and dry toasted the cacao nibs, tingeing the air with the earthy scent I loved.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Dawn breaks, the sun’s rays tracing the sky above Blackcliff’s ebony belltower like bloodied fingers, tingeing everyone in the courtyard a lurid red.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

“Why?” my mom asks, panic tingeing her voice.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Then the graphic qualifies even that, adding "barely" before "coping," tinging the word a furious flush of pink that seethes into red.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

It was long believed that Sativa’s ailing pipelines were responsible for delivering manganese into the water supply and tinging the water brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019

Even the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead views its sad, shuffling working-class protagonists from a jaded distance, tinging its humor and affection with mockery and blood.

From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2018

Wherever the “Peter Pan” fantasy turns up, though, her artwork blooms into color, suffusing Wendy’s dreams of Neverland and tinging the elements of the real world that she’s charged with her hopeful imaginings.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

All those scraggy- looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger