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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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From a lifeless strip of grass to a blossoming garden, Annadale Community Centre's grounds have received a glow up over the past year, becoming a "hidden gem" for all to enjoy.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Some customers were still coming by, hoping to unearth a rare gem amid the clothes, records, dishes and other items.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

A squat little gem painted gold, filled with vermouth jelly, surrounded by blueberry toast.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

The warm wooden accents of the home make the architectural gem feel intimately connected to the surrounding environmental beauty.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

The big square-cut gem that adorned his iron cuff glimmered redly.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He had helped revive the Atlanta Falcons, led the Rams to the Super Bowl, and developed a knack for unearthing gems in the NFL draft.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Let me conclude with a few gems from the experts I spoke to about life in your 70s.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

"Personally, I say use gems as they're bigger and more impactful, plus you can peel them off at the end of night and reuse them in the morning."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

With commercial tourism, social media and vlogging much of today’s world feels overexposed and overexplained, with seemingly every destination photographed, every experience reviewed and all hidden gems channeled into content.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

She curtsied, the red and blue gems in her belt sparkling in the sun.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

A search for “Barbie” on the company’s website returns rose-gold jewelry and pink gemmed rings.

From Reuters Jul. 23, 2023

Moreover, the first images of crosses portray them more as slender, gemmed staffs than as sturdy instruments of execution.

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2017

The passing rivers, the sounds rising from street gratings, the gemmed bridges were recognizable in name, but transposed to a different key.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2014

Depicted in his role as minister of justice, he wears an impressively gemmed and starchy crown, but the face below it looks miserable.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2010

Blue seas gemmed with verdant islands, rocky beaches from which sprang groves of lofty trees,—mountain ranges clothed with boskage and suggesting cool streams in their valleys—enticed us onward.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

In the green stillness of the deep woods, birds singing and shy delicate blossoms gemming the moss, the fierce and savage past was like a dream.

From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey

That door was flung back, and in the square of dripping darkness stood Creed Bonbright, his face death white, his eyes wide and fixed, the rain gemming his uncovered yellow hair.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

And so all the magnificence and beauty of the daily heavens, and the nightly gemming of the empty places with perpetually burning stars, are lost to them!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

Bells of dew glittered upon the bushes rooted in the walls, and upon the ivy-grown pillars; and gemming the countless spiders' webs stretched from bough to bough, showed they were all unbroken.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Its little yellow stars may now be seen gemming the woodsides, when all around is cold, comfortless, and dead.

From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore




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