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Red No. 2

noun

  1. an artificial red dye used in foods, drugs, and cosmetics: banned by the FDA in 1976 as a possible carcinogen.


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Food and Drug Administration to revoke authorization of citrus red No. 2 and orange B.

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The largest flatfish I’ve ever caught was in New York Harbor, just north of the red No. 2 buoy that marks the channel where the tourist boats go to drop off passengers at the Statue of Liberty, a summer flounder the size of a doormat, with bulging eyes.

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One pastel, “Nets and Red No. 2,” is covered with a thin sheath of synthetic netting — which would become a recurring visual element in some of her most prized works made in New York after she emigrated in 1957.

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Eaton wore his new jersey with the curly W and a red No. 2 on it.

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Though the NBA exhibition drew a smaller crowd than the college team’s midnight practice, several red No. 2 Washington shirts were sprinkled in the sea of Kentucky blue.

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