give color to
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She denounced it as a “hodgepodge of plagiarism pulled from here, a bit from there, the whole misinterpreted and sensationalized to give color to the red-flag word SPIES.”
From Literature
“How can you give color to a flavor?”
From New York Times
“I think you should paint them. Give color to what you want to say.”
From Literature
Gotham, through a spokesperson, declined to comment or give color to any particular sectors or stocks that have driven underperformance.
From Forbes
By means of the silver method of staining, and by injections of various insoluble pigments into the blood-current, certain results are met with, which give color to the view that pores and canals are present upon and in the walls of the vessels, analogous to those found in the diaphragm.
From Project Gutenberg
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