true colors
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But just as Rubio revealed his true colors on his first stop after Munich, AOC made what could turn out to be her most enduring impression after the conference as well.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026
Autochrome was the first technology that could capture the true colors of a subject.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Instead, the textures were perceived to be the true colors of the object's surface.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
You perceive Hale’s true colors immediately through those associations, just as you can see Ernest’s venality through DiCaprio’s immediately recognizable brand of boyish corruptibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Had Valley shown her true colors and ditched them right when things got dangerous?
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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