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Recent Examples of saturation
When temperatures drop enough for the air to reach saturation, fog forms—starting at or near the surface, then thickening as cooling continues.
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
Experts who want to fine-tune color and exposure to taste can switch to C-Log3, a flat profile with reduced contrast and color saturation, which provides more headroom for color correction.
—PC Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
According to Madigan, mixing chemicals could create a combination that is too harsh on fabrics, causing bleaching or product saturation in the fabric.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Read on to learn how four designers balance the tone and saturation of each to make a room feel bold and sophisticated or relaxed and comforting.
—Lacey Howard, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Nov. 2025
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
Experts who want to fine-tune color and exposure to taste can switch to C-Log3, a flat profile with reduced contrast and color saturation, which provides more headroom for color correction.
—PC Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
According to Madigan, mixing chemicals could create a combination that is too harsh on fabrics, causing bleaching or product saturation in the fabric.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Read on to learn how four designers balance the tone and saturation of each to make a room feel bold and sophisticated or relaxed and comforting.
—Lacey Howard, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saturation
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Kennedy’s promise to minimize federal involvement in enforcing constitutional rights is in stark contrast to Trump’s vow to employ troops in response to purported high crime in multiple major cities, a claim those cities’ leaders have disputed.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Newer machines, by contrast, often use payout systems that tie claw strength to how much money has been fed into the game, meaning the claw only reaches full strength after the operator’s preset threshold is met.—
Anna Rahmanan,
thehustle.co,
9 Jan. 2026
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Motorola built the camera system around Sony’s LYTIA sensor to improve brightness and color accuracy.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Those on a budget can find simple lanterns with multiple brightness levels at low price points.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Shivani Vyas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Aug. 2025
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The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
10 Aug. 2025
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Olathe’s trajectory mirrors what’s happening across Johnson County — which saw more than 90% of the homes go up in value in 2024, with the average home prices sitting at $508,000 and average sale price at $557,000.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2026
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Cultural, linguistic, and value-based assimilation challenges arise, potentially altering national identities and eroding civilizational confidence.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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To assess the roots, carefully remove the plant from its pot and examine them for firmness, lightness, and suppleness.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
8 Jan. 2026
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But with Rawayana, depth is always masked by lightness.—
Leonor C. Suárez,
Rolling Stone,
8 Jan. 2026
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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
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“Saturation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturation. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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