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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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As a director, his output included classic films like 1984's rock music mockumentary "This is Spinal Tap," fantasy gem "The Princess Bride" from 1987 and seminal coming-of-age movie "Stand By Me."

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

When you find one that is gracious enough to host you, it can feel like discovering a rare gem in a mine of homebodies and those siloed to their own friend groups or families.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

This 10,520 square-foot gem in Palm Beach County.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Point Two: Last postseason, even with his three-homer, 10-strikeout gem in the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers, Ohtani had a playoff ERA of 4.43.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

She also noted that as the diamond sector softens, shoppers have become more interested in colored gems.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

There are a lot of dogs, but if you look at enough, you will find some gems.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

Even though I’d seen the episodes before, I knew they were full of hidden gems.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

This bath is gemmed with glittering quartz and floored with red and white pebbles.

From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm

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

CORNFLOWERS, you say, just cornflowers, gemming the golden grain; Ah no!

From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

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

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




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