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Parts of the UK are set to enter a second week of temperatures above the heatwave threshold, with amber and yellow heat health alerts issued for between Sunday night and Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Taking an alcohol marker, he tinted the lights a soft amber, allowing him to highlight the art in the room without adding harsh overhead lighting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Heat related impacts may continue with an Met Office amber extreme heat warning in force from the Greater Manchester area, the Midlands, eastern and south-east England valid until 23:59 GMT on Friday.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Her face was pale and tragic in the lamplight; her bright eyes shone like amber held up to the light.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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
Tabasheer seems to stand in the same relation to the mineral kingdom as do ambers and pearls.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
When the great South African sun rose and flooded the veld with miraculous liquid ambers and flaming, melted rubies, the deep, wide grave at last was done.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
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