yellow
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Thick haze turned the skies in Indonesia's Palangkaraya apocalyptic shades of yellow and orange on Thursday, reducing visibility to a few dozen metres as wildfires cause a regional air pollution crisis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Softer CPI or PPI numbers this week could help gold rebound, but “stronger-than-expected prints may lift the dollar and yields, pushing the yellow metal lower,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The grainy footage, which has no audio, is said to show her wearing a yellow shirt, a baseball cap and a backpack while browsing items, including Molly the bird.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
It’s a yellow triangle with no face, and it wears sunglasses.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Small red and yellow flowers and a trail of ivy spill out of the basket beneath them, and a tiny model of the medicine wheel on a spike adorns the center of the arrangement.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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In the event, the Bottas incident, the FIA says, was "successfully managed by localised double yellows".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
An FIA spokesperson said that a single yellow was shown initially, before it was upgraded to a double yellows, by which time Antonelli and Russell had gone through.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
On the wall behind the couch where clients sit, I hung a tapestry that features a sun rising over an abstract landscape of pinks and yellows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
They do the same with blues and reds and yellows.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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As well as this, "he was just getting yellower and yellower", she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Removing the bluer light from the sun should make it look a bit yellower.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023
Light bulbs with warmer or yellower tones are more suited to our circadian rhythm than bluer light — that’s why the “night” mode on your smartphone uses them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
It had red writing spelling out the brand name Velveeta, the cheese substance that, depending on your color sense, is either bold gold or yellower than school bus yellow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Only the yellower ones survived because they were more fit to survive the torrid weather.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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Mallory Ortberg: “Jeeves, bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.”
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017
Fishkill Farms has the best eggs with the yellowest yolks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"You had blue eyes, and a fair skin, a very imperious will, and the yellowest hair I ever saw."
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
They simply weren’t my taste anymore, and I didn’t like how the resin had yellowed over time.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
The paper had yellowed from age and the cursive was so ornate the words were hard to make out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
One of the most intimate items in the collection is Monroe's 1950s brassiere that the auction company said had "yellowed due to age" and was inherited by Monroe's acting coach Paula Strasberg.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
There was even a yellowed human skeleton in one corner of the room: Mo did not know if it was real or not, but right now it was creeping her out.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
Symptoms include fever, weakness, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, yellowing of the skin or eyes, stomach pain, vomiting, dark urine, pale stools and diarrhea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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