Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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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
“It could have colored how jurors felt about the entire case.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2019
The crisis of the 1980s and ’90s, and the public’s blind eye to countless deaths, may have colored their childhoods with fear, but it is all still imagined from a distance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
Some people now have colored refrigerators, pale-green or pink, but I don’t like these colors and I’m pleased that Cordelia’s mother doesn’t either.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
