bronze
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Kipchoge is considered one of the greatest long-distance runners of all time, winning two Olympic marathon golds, plus a silver and bronze over 5000m.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
A life-size bronze statue of California’s first Kentucky Derby winner was stolen last week from a road median in north Sacramento.
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
The city of Philadelphia has permanently installed an 8½-foot bronze sculpture of Rocky Balboa outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The tops were fitted with a bronze rod that held silky white curtains.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
She won a silver and two bronzes at the 2019 Worlds before retiring in 2021.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
The 41-year-old mother had won silver and bronzes at the past four Winter Games and wondered if her best shot at becoming an Olympic champion was behind her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
There were paintings, bronzes, tapestries, all beautifully arranged.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
We wanted pasta that stretched and sighed, casseroles that arrived bubbling and bronzed, soups that tasted like something rescued from memory and improved by adulthood.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Effective public health messaging – which has drilled "Slip, Slop, Slap" into their heads – competes with a beauty culture which often idolises bronzed skin.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
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
The goddess thrust her spear at the giant, then brandished her shield with the fearsome bronzed visage of Medusa.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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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
Upon one occasion, while bronzing a piece of rubber cloth, he applied aqua fortis to it for the purpose of removing the bronze from a certain part.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
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