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Whether ultramarine, cerulean, Egyptian or cobalt, blue pigments have colored artworks for centuries.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
Those women, and socially conscious Latin American trova singers like Cuba’s Silvio Rodríguez and Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara of Chile, have colored Moreno’s burning musical entreaties on behalf of immigrants and other causes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Or the power dynamics that come into play when an elected official makes an advance on an aide: Most articles covering the story barely scratched the surface of how this might have colored the situation.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2021
These entanglements may have colored Mr. Boies’s objectivity and judgment about Mr. Weinstein.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
She longed to have colored pencils for her pictures of the imaginary city.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
