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Recent Examples of saturation
Most colors lacked saturation, giving photos a faded look right out of the printer.
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M. David Stone,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
After months of sticking to neutrals and darker color palettes, summer is the ideal time to inject some saturation to your usual look—well, at least with your manicure.
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Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
19 June 2026
The process preserved the original film grain and cinematic texture while calibrating brightness, contrast and color saturation for stability and clarity.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 June 2026
While she’s never shied from saturation in her collections, the Parsons chair emerita’s living spaces had always been neutral.
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Kathryn Romeyn,
Architectural Digest,
11 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for saturation
M. David Stone,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
After months of sticking to neutrals and darker color palettes, summer is the ideal time to inject some saturation to your usual look—well, at least with your manicure.
—
Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
19 June 2026
The process preserved the original film grain and cinematic texture while calibrating brightness, contrast and color saturation for stability and clarity.
—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 June 2026
While she’s never shied from saturation in her collections, the Parsons chair emerita’s living spaces had always been neutral.
—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Architectural Digest,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saturation
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The conditions are a stark contrast to the nation's bicentennial celebration in Washington in 1976, when the high temperature reached 84 degrees and the low dipped to 65 degrees, according to Department of Commerce data.
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Allen also recommends avoiding light grout lines at all costs to prevent a stark contrast.
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The continental climate brings cooler summers and colder winters, a boon for wine lovers seeking aromatics and brightness over weight and ripeness.
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Lowering your phone’s brightness can actually help preserve your night vision.
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Knowing elements like hue, value, chroma, and whether a color is warm or cool can all guide you towards picking hues that feel good in your space.
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The hunter green of the 1980s is back—but with a little less chroma.
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Household incomes average $376,741, and home values average $2 million.
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The Central African country is the world’s largest producer of cobalt and controls vast stores of copper, gold, and lithium; its mining sector is estimated to hold $24 trillion of mineral value.
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The movement here is made from 274 components, with a focus on lightness, transparency, and volume.
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Ease, fluidity and lightness in terms of proportion and material — silk, linen and cotton.
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Represented by the coordinates on the CIE chromaticity diagram, this color can be described as a shade of beige or off-white.
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Validation experiments to mimic lighting, display and sensing applications demonstrated that chromaticity, a measure of colorfulness separate from brightness, could be controlled with much more precision than the human eye can detect.
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“Saturation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturation. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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