garnet
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Around back, an arrow, painted garnet against an otherwise beige facade, points toward a red door sheltered by a small, domed awning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The alternative, Red Ambience, drenches the car in a fathomless shade of garnet metallic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
A tiny Sutton Hoo-era gold and garnet mount for an Anglo-Saxon warrior's sword belt has been found during a metal detecting event.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
These areas were silica particles surrounded by the grains of pink garnet, in which two SiO2 polymorphs had formed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
Hilly had it appraised a few years ago and found out it wasn’t even a ruby, just a garnet, hardly worth anything.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Piller juxtaposes opals, garnets and pearls with less conventional materials such as tile fragments, snakeskin, bits of lava from a trip to Iceland, and bullet casings, all bound together with strips of leather or vinyl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
The piece of whiteschist from the Dora Maira Massif contained pink garnets in a silvery-white matrix composed of quartz and other minerals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
The jewellery, found near Northampton, has at least 30 pendants and beads made of Roman coins, gold, garnets, glass and semi-precious stones.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2022
The state also boasts a large production of star garnets, the state gem — “so large that most of them are crushed up and made into sandpaper,” Mr. Braunwart said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
We’d search for gold, and when we couldn’t find it, we’d collect other valuable rocks, like turquoise and garnets.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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