amber

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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

Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 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

Sunday was about the blue and the green but ended up being more about those in maroon and claret and amber.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Six tons of pure glistening amber, a jeweled chamber that glowed like golden fire.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys