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Fan showed me three vials that each contained a reddish liquid, and a fourth whose contents were straw-colored.
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Shayla Love, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Dormant grass will completely cease growing, and blades will appear brown or straw-colored.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 July 2025
The blood on the infant’s brain was straw-colored, the surgeon had observed, not the pink or red typically associated with acute trauma.
—Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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Shayla Love, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Dormant grass will completely cease growing, and blades will appear brown or straw-colored.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 July 2025
The blood on the infant’s brain was straw-colored, the surgeon had observed, not the pink or red typically associated with acute trauma.
—Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Straw-colored.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straw-colored. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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