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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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Researchers are also studying fossilized amber, dinosaur scales and bones from other dinosaurs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Researchers used the instrument to produce high-resolution images of smaller bones, amber and fossilized scales.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the sealed amber world of the Woodstock era, liberation is all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The blue-lit monotony of every day is replaced by warm amber table lamps and dimly lit corners flanked by books on all sides.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

“It’s nice. It’s the same color as Mother’s amber beads. Is it supposed to look like that?”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

I would swim early in the morning when the water was still or late at night as the sun set, casting stunning ambers and pinks streaks through the sky.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025

The sunrise ambers and midnight blues of Joshua Cutts’s lighting design illuminate Michael’s states of mind as much as they do time and place.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The set design by Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino emphasizes depth of field, its white framework a receptive canvas for Linda Cho’s refined midcentury costumes and the warm ambers of David Weiner’s lighting.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

I won't say a word about mauves and faint ambers and umbras, but I do want to give that country a good word, as it looked that morning to me.

From The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower

They have always seemed to contain this suggestion for me: flowers that seemed to be much more the embodiment of jades, rubies, emeralds, and ambers, than just flowers from the common garden.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley


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