as in to fade
to make white or whiter by removing color
bleached the stained shirt back to its original white
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Recent Examples of bleach
Ortega is not the first celebrity to bleach her brows this year.
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Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
Africa, where the World Health Organization has deemed skin bleaching a dangerous and common phenomenon, is no exception.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Flash-forward nine years, and Joan (now played by a grad school-aged actor) is bleaching her hair and doctoring her selfies with the Ethnos app (designed to make people of color look white).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025
From stained and faded (and impossibly cool) leather jackets at Miu Miu and Dior to outerwear that looked bleached at Vaquera and Louis Vuitton, cold-weather staples with a character made a case for buying used this fall.
—Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
Africa, where the World Health Organization has deemed skin bleaching a dangerous and common phenomenon, is no exception.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Flash-forward nine years, and Joan (now played by a grad school-aged actor) is bleaching her hair and doctoring her selfies with the Ethnos app (designed to make people of color look white).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025
From stained and faded (and impossibly cool) leather jackets at Miu Miu and Dior to outerwear that looked bleached at Vaquera and Louis Vuitton, cold-weather staples with a character made a case for buying used this fall.
—Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleach
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First, there was a drip-drip-drip of crisis: as costs everywhere rose, city, state, and federal monies faded away once COVID-era bailout efforts came to an end.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2025
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But when a new Supreme rises, the old one fades away.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
23 Apr. 2025
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Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus Hair Dryer and Styler Best Amazon Skincare Deals Restock your skincare collection while this popular neck cream, brightening micellar water, and more favorites are marked down.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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On annual planting days, the garden club ladies brought plants into the city and joined residents in planting and installing window boxes to brighten up their neighborhood blocks.—
Sonja Dümpelmann,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
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The clarity might improve, but the spark—the particular cadence of someone’s thinking, the messy brilliance of their raw insight—can get dulled in translation.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The intentionally half-baked approach to Season 2 foreshadows an overstuffed and potentially controversial third season, the emotional effect of which will be dulled by the likely long hiatus (Season 1 premiered in January 2023).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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In This Story: Do any teeth whitening kits actually work? Are the best teeth whitening kits safe to use?—
Iman Balagam,
Vogue,
13 Apr. 2025
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Getting a professional whitening treatment in a dentist's office is the ultimate teeth whitening alternative.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Health,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Bleach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleach. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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