give color to
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Mr. Sharkey began working as a photographer at the family business when he was 16, and his firsthand accounts of the appointments give color to these mostly black-and-white portraits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Three of the ingredients are pigments, which give color to the skin when the cream goes on.
From Time Magazine Archive
How to give color to such a ceremony?
From Time Magazine Archive
It was one of those denials that give color to a suspicion which need not exist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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