colorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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It’s mission-critical for the concrete you’re going to colorize to be sound, clean and very slightly damp.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Why did they colorize the blood on one victim’s face, but not any blood on the zombies?
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2022
“The budget we had was to colorize about 30 to 40 minutes of film.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2018
Photos can also now colorize your older photos — even if they weren’t shot in color to begin with.
From The Verge ● May 8, 2018
But some lifeless specimens have slipped into the language, among them colorize, prioritize, and finalize, and they’re probably going to be around for a while.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
He placed two panels of 25 images each side by side, half colorized and half black and white, alluding to religious diptychs of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
And a 1997 report from the outlet quoted a VideoScan stat indicating 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s colorized version of Shirley Temple’s “Heidi” sold 1.2 million copies versus 46,000 of its black-and-white version.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
In “Memory Song,” for instance, Wolfe hauntingly colorized with silvery percussive accompaniment, marvelously melodic clarinet and cello lines and interruptions of chirping bird song, Monk’s singing of forgetting and football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
The colorized statues also seem “new” in the sense that they have just been pressed or stamped by some modern industrial process, and thus lack the supposed authenticity of genuinely ancient things.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
“I like your room,” I said, going over to look at a colorized Frankenstein poster on the wall.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
In 1986, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert dedicated a full episode of their syndicated series “At the Movies” to sounding the alarm about the industry’s fascination with colorizing black-and-white films.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
If you’re colorizing your stucco, add some pigment to your cement paint, too.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Stout: The poster artist has done a nice job colorizing the scene in a nostalgic, Kodachrome haze that perfectly captures the time period of the film.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
Earlier this year, Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” immersed audiences in the events of World War I by digitally restoring and colorizing original footage from the conflict.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
It was obsessed by being besmirched and colorizing the besmirching.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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