bronze
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Technology is a part of war’s landscape; it separates the 21st century from the eras of the Brown Bess musket, the bronze cannon and the M-1 Garand rifle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Team GB would go on to win bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, but from Paris in 2024 they left empty-handed, the first Games since 2008 the British women's squad had not won an Olympic medal.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Crabb previously clinched a Manhattan Beach Pier bronze plaque, but it was Benesh’s first time winning the open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hughes, world 100m bronze medallist in 2023, entered the championships as the fastest European this year, setting his season's best of 20.04 seconds at Alexander Stadium in winning the British title in June.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even with my growing knot of dread, things start to get more exciting by the time the bronze badges finally roll around.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Small bronzes, made in Italy, are like three-dimensional versions of line drawings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
In a clever piece of installation design, shelves built around the screen bring the painting’s illusions to life, displaying real bronzes, porcelains, texts and scholarly objects from Lee’s collection—modern curation fulfilling classical cultural capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
"The expense is in the making of the bronzes, that's why it costs a lot to have them done. Money value in the metal it is nothing," he said.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
GB's only previous Olympic medals on snow were bronzes - for snowboarder Jenny Jones in 2014, and freestyle skier Izzy Atkin and snowboarder Billy Morgan four years later.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
Perhaps a speculative novel where the main character is an archaeologist digging for bronzes who is then transported to an idyllic past?
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A red cartoon hunk of steak, a bronzed turkey, a few shrimp, a tub of unsweetened yogurt, an apple and a bag of frozen peas cascade alongside him.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
That afternoon in 2025, with his shellacked coif flapping against his bronzed forehead in the wind, the president held up hastily-assembled poster boards bearing the names of the world’s countries and territories.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
She has shared a before-and-after with her 59,000 followers: Her face, once splotchy with some acne scarring, is now clear, bronzed and glowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
From full-body taxidermy to partial mementos — skulls, bronzed hearts or freeze-dried paws, for example — such services provide closure in ways that, clients say, traditional burials or urns cannot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
He who had left them quick, in the prime of his manhood, author of their own fire and illumination, returned to them cold, already a bronzed statue.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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“They’ve had a curated set of items that they’ve gone after, so whether that be in blushes or in lips or in highlighter or bronzing categories, they’re seeing strength across the board,” Fields said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not long ago, the “Mar-a-Lago face” seemed inescapable — a viral shorthand for an exaggerated cosmetic aesthetic marked by heavy bronzing, sharply sculpted cheeks, overly plumped lips and high-gloss polish.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
Bahder, whose expertise traditionally involves detecting lethal bronzing in palm trees, explained that the fundamental process of molecular testing is similar across different organisms, with the main difference being the DNA sequence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Hyposecretion of the corticosteroids can cause Addison’s disease, which may result in bronzing of the skin, hypoglycemia, and low electrolyte levels in the blood.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Sunset, bronzing the observatory of Niss'rosh, on top of the huge skyscraper.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
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