technicolour
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Kyiv was in the depths of a frigid winter so monochrome that the scene on the platform could have been an old newsreel, but it was 2022 and happening in a technicolour, digital age.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
More waste arrives daily, piling up like technicolour snowdrifts along the roads and rivers of Xa Cau, one of hundreds of "craft" recycling villages encircling Vietnam's capital Hanoi where waste is sorted, shredded and melted.
From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025
He met Adam while on leave, after finding the courage to go to a gay bar for the first time - and at that moment, he says, "life turned from monochrome to technicolour".
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025
She appeared in more than 60 movies across her career, including silent films and one of the first made in technicolour.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022
Some see the constellation as a 'stagflation' trade in technicolour - a bond market pricing a another 1970s-style decade of both economic stagnation and persistent inflation.
From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2021
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