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- noun Plural form of
whitener .
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Examples
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"whiteners" of Germany but I think I will stick to black coffee.
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Good ones are rag rather than wood derived and might not have the same whiteners.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Unexpected Problem – Finding Non Fluorescent White Paper 2009
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Straw-like dentin tubules transmit pain to the tooth's nerve when exposed to heat or cold, acidic soft drinks or bleach in tooth whiteners.
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But the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va., libertarian public-interest law firm, is representing nondental teeth whiteners in Connecticut.
Whitening Upstarts Make Dentists Gnash Teeth Jennifer Levitz 2011
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Instead of banning scammy ads for bogus teeth whiteners and stomach flatteners, Google will now ban the advertiser itself, "effectively neutering the advertiser's ability to shift from one ad and shell site to another."
Boing Boing 2009
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The price range for toothpaste and related products, like whiteners, is one of the widest in consumer products, says Dina Howell , chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi X, an in-store marketing unit of Publicis Groupe.
Whitens, Brightens and Confuses Ellen Byron 2011
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They meet a woman whose skin was burned by these whiteners.
Dr. Susan Albers: Jessica Simpson Knows the Price of Beauty 2010
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But thanks to a mother obsessed with keeping me pearly and cavity-free, I got braces to reel back my buck teeth, received bi-annual fluoride treatments to keep fillings at bay, and endured pricey whiteners to abate a Diet Coke-tinted grin.
I Love Your Smile - Or, Discrimination In The Workplace Briana Rognlin 2010
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They meet a woman whose skin was burned by these whiteners.
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Rather than exploring the logical explanation – that Obama saw an advertisement, not an article, about skin whiteners, Remnick muses about whether "It might have been that Obama was thinking of John Howard Griffin's book, Black Like Me …" in which Griffin, "a journalist and burly white Texan" darkened his skin chemically and took a tour of the deep South "where he discovered the indignities suffered by men and women of colour".
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick 2010
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