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Recent Examples of discolor
Be careful not to use harsh chemicals like bleach, as this can damage or discolor the countertops.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
When circulation worsens, blood flow and oxygen decrease, causing the skin to become discolored and often appearing pale, bluish, or gray.4
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—Jane Kim, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025
Designed for dry, brittle, or discolored nails, the three-step renewal system starts with a prep treatment, which uses glycolic acid for exfoliation.
—Jenny Berg, Allure, 27 Jan. 2025
Prevent Loss And Damage Photos fade and discolor over time.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
When circulation worsens, blood flow and oxygen decrease, causing the skin to become discolored and often appearing pale, bluish, or gray.4
5.
—Jane Kim, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025
Designed for dry, brittle, or discolored nails, the three-step renewal system starts with a prep treatment, which uses glycolic acid for exfoliation.
—Jenny Berg, Allure, 27 Jan. 2025
Prevent Loss And Damage Photos fade and discolor over time.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for discolor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discolor
Verb
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Her circles are irregularly shaped, the charcoal lines smudged.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Wrought from a bevy of synths and pedals manipulated live in her London studio and mastered by Telefon Tel Aviv, Whatever the Weather II presents a song cycle themed around different temperatures, smudging tactile and vaporous sounds into an alluring collage.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Those violations included mop/wastewater dumped on the ground, larvae inside of a soda gun and a cutting board in front of a reach-in cooler soiled with food debris.—
Garfield Hylton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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Maria Ressa, a journalist and co-founder of one of the Philippines’ top news outlets, came under constant attack for her work documenting the human rights abuses that soiled Mr. Duterte’s presidency.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Solovyov expressed outrage over his brief stint with the battalion, suggesting this tarnished its reputation.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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The brewery, whose brand was tarnished over allegations of toxic workplace conditions in 2021, has locations in Fishtown and Mt. Airy.—
Isaac Avilucea,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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Unlike a total solar eclipse, when the disk of the sun is completely blackened, an eclipsed moon does not vanish completely from the sky.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
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But the negro resents and utterly repudiates the effort to blacken his good name by asserting that assaults upon women are peculiar to his race.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Martin and a companion on April 27, 2023, entered the Washington, DC, museum and smeared washable red and black paint on the case protecting Edgar Degas’s 1881 Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in an effort to bring attention to the climate crisis.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 Apr. 2025
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Timothy Martin smeared red and black paint on a case shielding a nearly 150-year-old sculpture by Edgar Degas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Seventy percent of the beaches in Gaza are polluted with sewage because of the lack of electricity, preventing them from treating wastewater.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
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And while housing grows increasingly unaffordable, homeless camps have exploded, spilling into city parks, crowding sidewalks, and polluting sensitive waterways, despite unprecedented public spending.—
Angela Hart,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Grease dirtied the handles of the ovens, the microwave ovens and the coolers.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
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Instead of dirtying a larger pot for your supporting dishes, this quaint cooker will come in handy for quick (or slower simmering) concoctions while matching your kitchen atmosphere.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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Be careful and don’t use it every wash because these products can stain your hair with a pink or lavender tint.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Discolor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discolor. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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