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agate

[ag-it] / ˈæg ɪt /
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Gold and silver inlay work and green agate stones complete the garment.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The doorknob-size piece, inlaid with carnelian, agate and lapis lazuli flowers reminiscent of the Taj, exemplifies how even the smallest functional item would be meticulously crafted and decorated in a consistent style in Mughal workshops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

“Now I have it. It’s a piece of agate from the Cady Mountains.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

Among his tasks in Metro was putting together the weather page, assembling all that agate type that listed highs and lows across the country.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

Like me, many of them wore family jewelry made of silver, inset with turquoise and agate and jet.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Experts from the University of Leeds and a specialist spectroscopy company were also involved, and they found she had carnelians and agates which she collected in Scarborough, where she worked as a governess.

From BBC ● May 21, 2022

Another tour de force is “Rock Shop,” which centers on a display of sliced agates and geodes in colors that verge on the artificial — each stone is a little painting edged in glitter.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

But beaches here mostly held smooth cobbles and agates, along with logs of fallen old-growth trees, some with two-story-high root balls resembling Medusa’s hair, tossed high onto the beach by storm waves.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

It is hard not to be charmed by Lowell’s hyperventilating report on his agates and turtles and toy soldiers, but the word “mania” suggests that he suspected the darker fortunes to come.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

He took his time about choosing three brown agates to take with him.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers


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