whitewashed

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Fuelled by a tourism boom, real estate fever has broken out across the Cyclades archipelago, threatening to destroy iconic landscapes of whitewashed houses and blue church domes.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

“It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story, if you’ll pardon the pun there. And that’s wrong.”

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Welshman Gerwyn Price whitewashed Alexis Toylo of the Philippines 6-0 and England's Stephen Bunting progressed to the next round with a 6-1 win over Japan's Tomoya Goto.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

The 1880s Artillery Officer Quarters, for example, have been restored and brilliantly whitewashed as the swank Capella Hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

The faint smell of manure was everywhere, but the walls were whitewashed and the dirt floor swept clean.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson