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Recent Examples of colorant
Except for canthaxanthin and orange B dye, the other colorants are made from petroleum.
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Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
UPFs are made from multiple ingredients including additives like colorants, flavor enhancers, and preservatives.
—Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Kennedy has used Kellogg’s Froot Loops as his primary example when railing against artificial colorants.
—Amelia Lucas,annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Manufacturers who use this dye, which the FDA noted isn’t as widely used as other colorants, have until 2027 and 2028 to update their foods and ingested drugs respectively.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
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Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
UPFs are made from multiple ingredients including additives like colorants, flavor enhancers, and preservatives.
—Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Kennedy has used Kellogg’s Froot Loops as his primary example when railing against artificial colorants.
—Amelia Lucas,annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Manufacturers who use this dye, which the FDA noted isn’t as widely used as other colorants, have until 2027 and 2028 to update their foods and ingested drugs respectively.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colorant
Noun
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The heat can set what’s left of the polish/pigment into the fabric fibers.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
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This reaction produces melanin, a brown-black pigment that's also found in humans.—
Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
10 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The nail polish removers will make the cloth dye bleed right onto the sofa.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
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While effortless reds, blondes, and browns are predicted to dominate in 2026, sometimes the best hair dye is none at all.—
Essence,
Essence,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The upholstery is of nice quality, too—no snags or sagging, at least at this point—and there’s some subtle variation in the coloring that adds a bit of depth (my bed features the Stone fabric, but bouclé is also available).—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2026
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Her curly brown hair, a mix of Chopra's coloring and Jonas's texture, was depicted in the following slide.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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He was drawn to the kinds of exotic materials favored by the Japanese—among them, rare stones such as color-changing alexandrites and blue-green Paraíba tourmalines—as opposed to, say, emeralds, a staple of the Indian-jewelry repertoire.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
9 Nov. 2025
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With a Black/Black/Light Graphite color combination, the style blacks out the entire nubuck leather upper with lighter graphite accents on the tongue and insole branding.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Colorant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colorant. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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