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• “The veneered plywood shell can be in bleached oak, wengé stained, or covered with monochromatic or bicolour laminate.”

  Woody Wood Rug

• “Surround walls of rustic tiles are accented with collections of seashells bleached from the sun.”

  Bartolotta Ristorante de Mare – Travel to the Italian Seaside Without the Jetlag

• “In a sense, it’s the ultimate crossover – what else would you call a novel that mixes original characters with visitors from Dickens, the Bronte sisters, and even a cameo by a certain bleached-blonde vampire named Spike?”

  The Well of Lost Plots

• “Vividly he recalled the bleached bones of the long-dead warrior in the bottom of the precipitous gorge that had all but proved a trap for him as well.”

  Tarzan the Untamed

• “Algae living in symbiotic harmony with their animal hosts were expelled, leaving great expanses of white, or so-called bleached, coral reef.”

  PLoS Biology: New Articles

• “North can be described as bleached-immaculate and bloodless in a wash of round-the-clock sterility.”

  Gizmodo

• “I think the bleached is a little too contrasty with your skin tone.”

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• “This is going to set up a very interesting dynamic, because right now, the kind of bleached districts where candidates can get away with demonizing Latino immigrants -- because they're more worried about a primary challenge than a general election loss -- may end in the next decade," Sharry said.”

  Frank Sharry: Latinos Poised to Shake Up 2010 Census, Politicians Beware

• “The flash kind of bleached out the color--really they're brighter.”

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• “Republican gains came partly through creation of black districts, which improved GOP prospects in surrounding districts 'bleached' of blacks ...”

  OpEdNews - Quicklink: Voting Rights Act, at 40, faces reauthorization amid topsy-turvy politics

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