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[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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Two weeks earlier, the Patriot team rode in a yellow school bus without air conditioning on a 100-degree day to an away game at Ramona.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

The Met Office has issued a yellow severe weather warning for fog from Lincolnshire, the East Midlands, the Home Counties into parts of Greater London.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The company—known for its giant yellow dump trucks, bulldozers and other equipment—posted a third-quarter profit of $3.29 billion, or $7.13 a share, compared with $2.3 billion, or $4.88 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Fire salamanders are among Europe's most recognizable amphibians, known for their striking black and yellow coloring and the poisonous substances they release to deter predators.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

It was pointed at a yellow Packard parked in front of the Lugo House.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

But seasoned leaf-peepers know that Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park and Shenandoah Valley are equally majestic places for autumn color, thanks to sugar maples, magnolias and more vegetation that erupts in fiery reds, oranges and yellows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

More of the shorter blue wavelengths of light are scattered, allowing the yellows, oranges and reds to become more prominent.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

On the wall behind the couch where clients sit, I hung a tapestry that features a sun rising over an abstract landscape of pinks and yellows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

I crept along, walking a southern walk in southern weather, closing my eyes from time to time against the dazzling reds, yellows and greens of cheap sport shirts and summer dresses.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

As well as this, "he was just getting yellower and yellower", she said.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

Removing the bluer light from the sun should make it look a bit 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

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

This meant running about nightly—consequently cross-currents of gossip lively enough to make the yellowest journal turn green with envy.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams

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

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

David's lounge is a riot of colour – on the floor of his living room are porcelain figurines, hundreds of yellowed newspapers and, balanced across the back of his settee, several thousand Barbie dolls.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

Once Cora had gleaned what she could from the yellowed pamphlets, she started on the old almanacs, with their projections and ruminations about the tides and stars, and bits of obscure commentary.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Van der poel, Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Paul Seixas and Pidcock were all there, all animating and pushing to breakaway from one another under gradually yellowing Canadian maples.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

On the yellowing front page, 20 or so young Greenlanders smile, feet planted in the snow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

And here was a yellowing newspaper with a picture of Lina Lovat6n captioned with a poem by Trujillo.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez


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