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The titular “hare with the amber eyes” in Edmund de Waal’s memoir is a netsuke, a tiny Japanese carving intended as a fastener for use with a kimono.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In the 1830s, however, the city, then the capital of East Prussia, was “still bathed in the amber glow of the late Enlightenment,” as Christopher Clark tells us in “A Scandal in Königsberg.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The nightjar is listed as an amber species under the Red List for Birds, meaning it is a species of "conservation concern".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

As it moves across the UK, it is expected to transform ordinary sunrises and sunsets into striking displays of deep gold, amber, and burnt orange.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

She straightened from her place on the riverbank, holding her plait of amber hair, much the way Clare held his own tail for comfort.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman