As my whitened knuckles are about to give, I feel the grip of a large, strong hand around my wrist.

FORBES: The Action Movie Blog Post

Outside, a frost had stayed all that day and, icing over now, still whitened the small garden, the patch of grass, the fields beyond.

NEWYORKER: Faith

Last September a team led by researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California, looked at whether clouds could be whitened artificially (and thus caused to reflect more sunlight back into space) using particles emitted from a boat.

ECONOMIST: Geoengineering