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verb

past tense of color
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as in blushed
to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) she colored after hearing the nasty remarks about her weight

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Recent Examples of colored
Verb
Phoenix Raceway bag policy Phoenix Raceway's bag policy allows bags that are fully clear or colored clear plastic, vinyl or mesh. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024 These small, dimpled bumps look white, pink, or skin-colored. Carley Millhone, Health, 19 Oct. 2024 Numbers and colored contours on a map are not sufficient and really never have been. Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colored
Adjective
  • Her program prioritizes outside time and operates out of several yurt-style classrooms brimming with natural light and colorful Montessori materials.
    Kerry McDonald, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Both are deciduous shrubs that produce colorful clusters of flowers that attract butterflies and other pollinators but chaste tree and butterfly bush are not closely related.
    Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • There are no windows from Ski Dubai to the outside world and its walls and ceiling are painted in a creamy-blue color giving it a perpetual appearance of twilight.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The sun has disappeared beyond the middle-class condos of West Palm Beach and the western sky is painted tangerine.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, with a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27, and the S&P 500 Index’s P/E at 24, are both distorted by tech stocks, such as Nvidia (NVDA).
    Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Has that distorted the trajectory of his adult life?
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The performances will run the musical gamut and reflect a varied year in music, in which female narrators reined supreme, country ruled the charts and genre-bending was the name of the game. Need a break?
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Their distinct histories in the U.S. and varied relationships with the government had shaped three distinctly different political outlooks.
    Jane Hong / Made by History, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The 6,700-square-foot space feels like an exclusive supper club, anchored by a vast oval bar surrounded by stools padded with blue leather.
    Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The 6,700-square-foot space feels like an exclusive supper club, anchored by a vast oval bar surrounded by stools padded with blue leather.
    Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But ultimately, the Lakota were left voiceless and misrepresented.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Stores are not legally required to accept exchanges or give refunds unless the merchandise was defective or misrepresented.
    Rick Walz, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Suspended from the fashionable wooden arch are a teething ring, crinkly rainbow, rattle, mirror, and plush moon to promote hand-eye coordination.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The Garvin flies both a rainbow Pride flag and a Black Lives Matter flag, prompting the occasional shouted slur.
    Brian Owens, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
Verb
  • Each six-way power seat comes clad in smooth black leather with white contrast stitching at the seams and the trident logo embroidered into the headrest.
    Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Platform Crocs were worn with oversized jean shorts and jeans embroidered with hearts.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Colored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colored. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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