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bronze

[bronz] / brɒnz /


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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

But now, I seriously doubted anyone was going to hand me a bronze statue for the way I yelled at my kids for not finishing their chicken nuggets.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

England lost their semi-final 2-1 to Argentina, before beating France 6-4 in the bronze medal match.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

What they did recover was a bronze disc, which is still being studied to determine its function and whether it was part of the original Antikythera Mechanism.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

This is the largest presentation of Giacometti’s plaster sculptures in the U.S.—and for those who know only his bronzes, a few of which are included in the show, it is revelatory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

These are paired with the organic wooden sculptures of Claudia Comte, the curvaceous surfaces of which echo the lively plants of Matisse’s cut-outs, and touching bronzes by Geles Cabrera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

She won a silver and two bronzes at the 2019 Worlds before retiring in 2021.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

She’d racked up three silvers and two bronzes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Although Richard had read about how the bronzes were found, he asked the question anyway.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That afternoon in 2025, with his shellacked coif flapping against his bronzed forehead in the wind, the president held up hastily-assembled poster boards bearing the names of the world’s countries and territories.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 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

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

From full-body taxidermy to partial mementos — skulls, bronzed hearts or freeze-dried paws, for example — such services provide closure in ways that, clients say, traditional burials or urns cannot.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

The knight’s hair was almost a bronzed brown, a color that accented his green eyes.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

“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

“He’s been applying his bronzing cream to his face. Cute couple. Look out, Melania, Trump’s got a new squeeze named Elonia Musk.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

At its foot grew a hanger of beeches, already bronzing to autumn.

From The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea by Alfred Ollivant




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