amber
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Two of those specimens turned out to contain fossilized animals that were nearly impossible to see with the naked eye because the amber pieces were never polished.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Goethe's amber collection, now housed at the Goethe National Museum and managed by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, contains 40 pieces of Baltic amber.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Our politics are trapped in amber, our culture is frozen in ice.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
You can be blue or tangerine, red or black, claret and amber - everybody has some sort of skin in the game, some reason to be gripped.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Her face was pale and tragic in the lamplight; her bright eyes shone like amber held up to the light.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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