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as in white
lacking an addition of color
since we can't decide what color to paint the doghouse, our latest home project remains colorless for the time being
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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
page after page of colorless prose without even one neat turn of phrase
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Recent Examples of colorless
Generators emit carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas that can be fatal if inhaled.
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Lyndsey Gilpin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
Generators produce carbon monoxide, a deadly odorless, colorless gas.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Ozone is a colorless gas that naturally occurs in the Earth's upper atmosphere and near the ground.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2024
Benzene is a colorless liquid chemical at room temperature that evaporates quickly when exposed to air.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
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Lyndsey Gilpin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
Generators produce carbon monoxide, a deadly odorless, colorless gas.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Ozone is a colorless gas that naturally occurs in the Earth's upper atmosphere and near the ground.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2024
Benzene is a colorless liquid chemical at room temperature that evaporates quickly when exposed to air.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colorless
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
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But to play to that dichotomy is a tightrope walk: lean too far one way and Indy becomes boring, either as too normal or a superhero.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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The idea was clear enough, and conceptual artists have been struggling ever since to make works that are not as boring as this one.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Use transparent metrics, public reporting, and stakeholder engagement to ensure your company’s AI aligns with ethical standards and human rights ideals.Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Sony’s plan to build an entire franchise out of standalone films about Peter Parker’s nemeses always read as a transparent attempt at riding Marvel Studios’ coattails post-Spider-Man: Homecoming.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
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While congressional hearings are often dull set pieces, this one offered a remarkably lively and informative discussion of the practicalities and opportunities facing America regarding space resources.Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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For her, the glory of the honeymoon had been in the planning, the dreaming, the building up in her mind; what a letdown to find that Paris was just a place, that some days were full of chill gray drizzle, that the dull, thick bodies of other tourists blocked her from full joy.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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There’s a good bit of history in the faded paint: The late D’Alessandros — Old Tommy and Young Tommy, both Baltimore mayors, and the father and brother, respectively, of Pelosi — appear.Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 24 Nov. 2024
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In between the customers, vendors were constantly on the move, expertly moving buckets of flowers from nearby coolers onto the floor or stripping faded petals and leaves from new bunches of flowers.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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That will be a welcome change from an unusually slow offseason so far, but there’s no chance Sasaki will sign with his new team this week.Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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No one knows for sure why the rally happens but some experts attribute it to such seasonal things as holiday shopping and investors wrapping up their books before the end of the year, ahead of a slower January.Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin Issa Rae on the belief that gets her through 'stupid mistakes and bad decisions' Lithgow: More.Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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For the people stupid enough to have trusted a midwit career bureaucrat as unscrupulous as President Joe Biden, there’s a sixth stage just before acceptance: delusion.Becket Adams, National Review, 8 Dec. 2024
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Poor Ventilation Along with the increase in moisture and humidity, another leading cause for a dusty bathroom is poor ventilation.Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2024
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And some days, its dusty air carries the stench of the polluted Salton Sea eight miles west.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Colorless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colorless. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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