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[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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Argentina had already had one player dismissed, with Enzo Fernandez receiving a second yellow card in second-half stoppage time.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Some supporters hurried to work still wearing Spain jerseys, while others had red and yellow face paint streaked across their cheeks.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

And it has a spacious coed floor — called the “Main Hall” — with a full-service restaurant and the spectrum of saunas, including a Himalayan salt room, yellow clay room and cold room.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Still, she reckons the recent decline is more likely a temporary repricing process, rather than the beginning of a prolonged bear market for the yellow metal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

My yellow Converse sank into an inch of flattened hay, and my sundress did nothing to protect my legs from it tickling my calves and ankles.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

An FIA spokesperson said that a single yellow was shown initially, before it was upgraded to a double yellows, by which time Antonelli and Russell had gone through.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

"Across the championship they are the top for penalties conceded, with eight yellows and one red, and the damage it did to them - they conceded 63 points with a player off the pitch."

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

Visitors can expect yellows and splashes of orange, with more flowers sprouting every day.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

She and Akira picked out five apiece, pale greens and yellows and pinks.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

If the sky looks blue, that could also make the sun look yellower.

From Scientific American Sep. 1, 2023

Light bulbs with warmer or yellower tones are more suited to our circadian rhythm than bluer light — that’s why the “night” mode on your smartphone uses them.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2022

It had red writing spelling out the brand name Velveeta, the cheese substance that, depending on your color sense, is either bold gold or yellower than school bus yellow.

From New York Times Feb. 9, 2022

In its crystalline form, sodium nitrite looks like a yellower cousin of table salt.

From Salon May 23, 2021

The leaves get smaller and yellower, folding back toward the bud, and the air crisps.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Mallory Ortberg: “Jeeves, bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.”

From Slate Feb. 22, 2017

Fishkill Farms has the best eggs with the yellowest yolks.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2016

A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian Nov. 29, 2012

Not even the yellowest journals suggested that Banker Morgan was selling his pictures because he needed the money.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would have aroused the indignation of every patriotic Briton, and the circulation of even the yellowest in the world would have suffered.

From The Weight of the Crown by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

They simply weren’t my taste anymore, and I didn’t like how the resin had yellowed over time.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

One of the most intimate items in the collection is Monroe's 1950s brassiere that the auction company said had "yellowed due to age" and was inherited by Monroe's acting coach Paula Strasberg.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

Fruit stored at 30°C yellowed rapidly, while mangoes kept at 12°C maintained their color longer because chlorophyll breakdown slowed significantly.

From Science Daily May 23, 2026

I found a piece of yellowed notebook paper within, calculations on it in Dad’s handwriting.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The artifacts — yellowing parchment with slight marks of stress at the edges and an intricately detailed stone tablet — are almost luminous under dim overhead lights at the exhibit.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.

From Barron's Feb. 4, 2026

It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.

From MarketWatch Jan. 28, 2026

The rest of the yellowing is a sign not of bad hygiene but of natural teeth “within a range of normal for that age,” Taylor said.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2025

Another box, with the letters MMB, held old tools and some yellowing newspapers.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick




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