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are coloring
  • present progressive of color.

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Long, frustrating job searches and headlines about large-scale corporate layoffs are coloring views of a labor market far harder to navigate than it was a couple years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Taped to another wall are coloring book tear-outs of Odums’ drawings, crayoned in by young children who come here for art instruction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2020

Geard’s most lasting memories of his mother are coloring while sitting in her lap at their Staten Island home.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2019

By taking archival material out of libraries and placing it in today’s most accessible venue of content consumption—our social media feeds—these Instagram accounts are coloring in our mutual understanding of queer history.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2019

There are coloring books spread across the table and something bubbling on the stovetop.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller