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Recent Examples of secondary color
The most valuable stones display a pure blue hue with strong saturation and minimal secondary colors.
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Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026
Another idea is to select a secondary color from the pattern and utilize your hat to accentuate that hue.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
The goal is to fill 60 percent of the space with a dominant color, and then 30 percent with a secondary color.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
Jones wore purple — the secondary color produced when the primary colors of red and blue and blended.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
Lock-Down Color Palettes: Exact hex and CMYK codes for your main and secondary colors.
—New Atlas, 12 Nov. 2025
The pilot watch’s dial features a team’s primary color, like the Detroit Lions’s Honolulu Blue, and the second hand its secondary color—in this case, silver.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
The secondary color might show as a thin slice in one eye or cover up to two-thirds of the iris in another.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
Colorado, a state whose shape is a simple rectangle, flipped from George W. Bush in 2004, while the secondary color of Davis’ choice of purple paint was created by combining two primary pigments — red and blue.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026
Another idea is to select a secondary color from the pattern and utilize your hat to accentuate that hue.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
The goal is to fill 60 percent of the space with a dominant color, and then 30 percent with a secondary color.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
Jones wore purple — the secondary color produced when the primary colors of red and blue and blended.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
Lock-Down Color Palettes: Exact hex and CMYK codes for your main and secondary colors.
—New Atlas, 12 Nov. 2025
The pilot watch’s dial features a team’s primary color, like the Detroit Lions’s Honolulu Blue, and the second hand its secondary color—in this case, silver.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
The secondary color might show as a thin slice in one eye or cover up to two-thirds of the iris in another.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
Colorado, a state whose shape is a simple rectangle, flipped from George W. Bush in 2004, while the secondary color of Davis’ choice of purple paint was created by combining two primary pigments — red and blue.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary color
Noun
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King became the Bulls’ primary color commentator in 2008, teaming with play-by-play specialist Neil Funk.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
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In a burst of primary color and trompe l’oeil trickery, five dice—red, yellow, blue, green, white—are suspended against a maroon field densely latticed with dice shapes, the cubes appearing simultaneously to lie stationary on its pip-stippled surface and to tumble downward through space.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Having a tertiary color would’ve helped to break up the red, especially since the lettering is the same color.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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What are the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors on a color wheel?—
Kate Reggev,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Secondary color.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20color. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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