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Fan showed me three vials that each contained a reddish liquid, and a fourth whose contents were straw-colored.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025 Dormant grass will completely cease growing, and blades will appear brown or straw-colored.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
22 July 2025 The blood on the infant’s brain was straw-colored, the surgeon had observed, not the pink or red typically associated with acute trauma.—
Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024