First recorded in 1955–60
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"Beyond imaging, a DNA color code could have very useful applications in data storage on DNA," says Tadija Keki?,
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023
The volcano’s alert level was raised to warning status and the aviation color code went to red as scientists evaluate the eruption and associated hazards.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
At the same time, the color code provides information that can be measured by entropy.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023
It's not legislation to have to put on the front and color code it so that a busy working parent can decide.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2023
The mother had devised the color code to save time.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Adapting an approach commonly used by immunologists, the team was able to color-code individual particles within cells using antibodies and then sort them by color.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
Austin keeps a color-code chart tracking weapons shipments into the war zone, and keeps the president up to date with it, Sullivan added.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022
As Shapiro rose to be a manager, he became fluent in the color-code vocabulary.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
Q. Re: Do I need to color-code the baby?
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2019
You can color-code each item to make identifying different categories of products easy, and items the app does not already have can be typed in.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2016
To use it while playing Wordle, a player would run a separate script/program and enter the color-coded feedback after each guess.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
But "Category 1" ticket holders were placed in sections that, at one point, were color-coded as "Category 2," according to the report.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Each year, he distributes to colleagues a color-coded calendar — a different color for every sport he’s covering that day — and the patchwork on every page looks like the Partridge family bus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Labubu hauls, Temu hauls, endless TikToks of nails clicking ASMR-style up and down a color-coded Stanley tumbler—it was a little hypnotic, a little horrifying.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
“The post office, Harry! About two hundred owls, all sitting on shelves, all color-coded depending on how fast you want your letter to get there!”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
Census reports suggests that the old civic-cultural norm in “whiteness” is fading and that no other official color-coding can tell us who “we” really are.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Intentional use of color-coding was very important to participants, increasing both their understanding and perception of credibility.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
This late-August morning, the Oregon air quality index, with a slightly different color-coding system than PurpleAir, has an “unhealthy” scarlet dot over our locale.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2023
For this semester, the university has kept the color-coding, but adapted the guidelines to recognize that almost everyone is vaccinated, including 99 percent of students and 100 percent of the faculty.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2022
A note on insulation color-coding: Insulating plastic is color-coded to identify live/hot, neutral and ground wires but these codes vary around the world.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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