bronze
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The program identifies its cast of 15 as “Mother,” “Offspring,” “Community” and “Fledglings,” all costumed by Viktor&Rolf in mostly glossy unitards that range from hues of burnished gold to polished bronze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
They feature two bronze axe-heads, and clay moulds potentially used to make some of the unique bronze fittings in the nearby Peebles Hoard - which was saved for the nation in 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The thieves left behind only a single bronze hoof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The 21-year-old will instead go home with only a bronze medal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Aras had said that within the wreck he had seen a number of large copper ingots and that he had actually recovered a bronze knife.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Overall, Manaudou won six Olympic medals across four appearances at the Games, with three silvers and two bronzes in addition to his gold.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
And compared with the bronzes, the plasters are especially sensitive, fragile—you’re drawn to protect them, but any touch seems like it would be too much for these waifish bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
In a clever piece of installation design, shelves built around the screen bring the painting’s illusions to life, displaying real bronzes, porcelains, texts and scholarly objects from Lee’s collection—modern curation fulfilling classical cultural capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
"The expense is in the making of the bronzes, that's why it costs a lot to have them done. Money value in the metal it is nothing," he said.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
He showed Richard the wide rectangular ditches where the excavations had taken place, the shovels and pans that had been used to brush the dust off the bronzes.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The top should look bronzed and crackly, while the interior stays custardy.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
She has shared a before-and-after with her 59,000 followers: Her face, once splotchy with some acne scarring, is now clear, bronzed and glowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
It arrives in a thick, architectural slab, edges bronzed, interior plush but disciplined.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
She posted images of city workers prying out the two figures from the bench and the bronzed Castro and Guevara being ignominiously hauled away in a bulldozer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025
Now she just leaned back and shouted out the answers, her bronzed arms folded across her chest like some great grammar genie.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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“They’ve had a curated set of items that they’ve gone after, so whether that be in blushes or in lips or in highlighter or bronzing categories, they’re seeing strength across the board,” Fields said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not long ago, the “Mar-a-Lago face” seemed inescapable — a viral shorthand for an exaggerated cosmetic aesthetic marked by heavy bronzing, sharply sculpted cheeks, overly plumped lips and high-gloss polish.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
Bahder, whose expertise traditionally involves detecting lethal bronzing in palm trees, explained that the fundamental process of molecular testing is similar across different organisms, with the main difference being the DNA sequence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Hyposecretion of the corticosteroids can cause Addison’s disease, which may result in bronzing of the skin, hypoglycemia, and low electrolyte levels in the blood.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Crocker has reported a case somewhat similar to these two, under the head of general bronzing without constitutional symptoms, in a Swedish sailor of twenty-two, with rapid onset of pigmentation.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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