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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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How do you approach working with a gem that holds so much history?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The 7,700-square-foot gem sits on a gated 1.48-acre lot just outside of Atlanta, in an area the actor appears to have mixed feelings toward.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

This year, nothing is working well — although the defense did turn in a gem for three quarters in the Week 3 loss at Buffalo, including five takeaways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

"That hidden gem kind of thing almost does not exist any more in football," says Kjaer.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

They rushed to hustle the gem back into the lead-lined box.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Johnson’s public comments are usually motivational gems such as “When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

These gems are surrounded by a wealth of period garments, accessories, artworks, posters, sketches, photographs and clips from over 50 silent movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Hunting hidden gems - is there anywhere in the world left to scout?

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Natural Diamond Council rebranded as the Diamond Collective and said it would try to bring together producers, retailers, brands and others to protect demand against lab-grown gems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

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

When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night-dew gemming his mustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with I know not what vultures tearing his liver.

From International Short Stories English by Various

Lady Frances observed it, and smiling said,— "You are gemming my ornaments, setting them in crystal instead of gold."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall

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

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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