tincture
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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
For as long as I could remember, whenever I was in pain, whether from a cut or a toothache, Mother would make a tincture of lobelia and skullcap.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Her Anima Mundi Herbals is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the company manufactures herbal tinctures, elixirs, teas, herbal supplements and other botanicals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Most preshow work happens in her “dog room,” a basement utility space where pet scrubs and tinctures abound like makeup at Sephora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
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
Products from bottled tinctures to chocolate bars and powdered coffee alternatives promise everything from mental clarity and anti-aging to immune support and tumor suppression.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 31, 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
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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
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All who were considered disaffected were regarded as being tinctured with abolitionism.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey
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
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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
Everything took on a wistfulness in the evening air, which the sunset was tincturing like claret poured into water.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
I fall, and when I awaken M. Picot is standing, candle in hand, tincturing my wounds.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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