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Recent Examples of chroma
Knowing elements like hue, value, chroma, and whether a color is warm or cool can all guide you towards picking hues that feel good in your space.
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Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
The nuances are detailed in long blog posts filled with pictures of color wheels and terms such as chroma.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2024
Saturation, or chroma, refers to the level of intensity or brilliance of a color.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Colors have properties like luminance, chroma and saturation, all of which affect their appearance.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.
—Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
The nuances are detailed in long blog posts filled with pictures of color wheels and terms such as chroma.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2024
Saturation, or chroma, refers to the level of intensity or brilliance of a color.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Colors have properties like luminance, chroma and saturation, all of which affect their appearance.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chroma
Noun
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Such hair-thin probes can measure heartbeat, oxygen saturation and temperature in real time.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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The South Dakota Highway Patrol began a series of saturation patrols during the summer called Operation Prairie Thunder, which have continued in cities across the state.—
John Hult,
States Newsroom,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The monitor has an ambient sensor that helps adjust lighting depending on brightness.—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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Follow with low lighting throughout the home rather than returning to full brightness.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In our testing, the Cintiq Pro 17 covered 100% of the sRGB space (which is very similar to Rec. 709) and 98.1% of DCI-P3 (see the chromaticity chart above).—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
26 Jan. 2024
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Validation experiments to mimic lighting, display and sensing applications demonstrated that chromaticity, a measure of colorfulness separate from brightness, could be controlled with much more precision than the human eye can detect.—
MEERI KIM | INSIDE SCIENCE,
ABC News,
11 July 2021
Noun
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The median monthly rent and home value are $1,891 and $376,723, respectively.—
Chase Jordan
March 30,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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But Trump’s election proved that a sizable contingent of the population had no problem imposing their values on others—and even hoped that the government might do so for them.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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That’s in contrast to an earlier trend from 2019 to 2023, when rates dropped only among white people and rose sharply among Black and Indigenous Americans.—
Kaitlin Coward,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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In contrast, with a GLP-1, people might be more inclined to take them because of their burnished reputation.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Are laughter and lightness merely opiates, or tools of the revolution, or both, or neither?—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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Even before the Elite Eight tipped off, Auriemma said the Huskies were operating with a lightness he’s rarely ever seen in 41 seasons at the helm of the program.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Chroma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chroma. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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