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Among them was Cameron’s upstairs work loft, where Alix ripped out the carpet before adding dark gray textured walls, wood flooring, custom black shelving, weathered-looking light fixtures, and a large glass table.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
A gray wolf was spotted in Lake County, a bright sign that the recovering endangered species is expanding its presence in California, wildlife officials say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The Wolf Conservation Center estimates there are around 7,600 gray wolves in the contiguous United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Aging often makes itself visible in familiar ways, from gray hair and wrinkles to lapses in memory.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Instantly the vice pressing in on all sides of the room releases, the gray clouds disperse and the sun comes back.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
On an afternoon that was cooler and grayer than Thursday, the woman ranked No. 1 in the world got back on track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
If McIlroy’s not the face of golf, he is undeniably its statesman, a little grayer and wiser than a champion his age should be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Marcus Mariota’s hair is grayer now than when he entered the NFL as a highly touted prospect and a potential face of a franchise.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
That book examined the phenomenon of exiles — “not the gory amputation of refugee flight,” Mr. Eder wrote, “but arrival’s grayer course of tissue rejection.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Our dead as a result are thinner, grayer, harder to hear, and hungrier.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Presumably the same is true of the grayest day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
It was a radical solution for a problem that has become increasingly common in Japan, the world’s grayest society.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
It makes a great coffee table book, one that can help inspire on even the grayest of days.
From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022
Even during the grayest of winter months, there is plenty of green, and pops of color and beauty around the region in arboretums and botanical gardens.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
It was a sunshiny day when I saw them, but they were well calculated to enliven the very grayest weather that England can produce.
From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
As we follow the cat on her solitary journey through a wind-tossed landscape of muted grays and blues, the question of what a small cat needs takes on a more philosophical bent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
Bulbs are defiant harbingers of spring in colder climes, sometimes pushing up through the snow in their zeal to greet the sun and spread a little color on a bleak landscape of slushy grays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
White was fading away to expose the grays and browns that had been hidden beneath.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
In the distance, somewhat grayed by atmospheric haze, are the smokestacks and cooling tower of the power plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Despite aggressive debridement — daily surgical scrapings of her wounds to clean out the infection — and expensive medications, the tissues in her leg grayed at the edges.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The fire department noted that the large amounts of logs and brush inside the landfill helped produce the prodigious plumes of smoke that further grayed out the sky well into Tuesday.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
It’s shot in faded, slightly grayed colors, as if it was left out in the rain, with cinematographer Luc Montpellier finding beautiful afternoon light in the barn and surrounding fields … .
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
Eleven of these icons were grayed out and had a red “X” over them, and these robots could not be identified or selected.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
They are graying and a bit world-weary now as they file into a courtroom in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
My rapidly thinning, gradually graying hair tells me that I’m not the man I was two decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeff Schmid has found a silver lining in America’s graying demographics: All of those extra visits to the doctor are good for the economy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
The fine arts have long struggled with a so-called graying audience, and have moved mountains to innovate in ways that keep the genres fresh in order to attract younger, excitable crowds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
He looks just like the photos of him on the Web—older white man with graying hair and bright black eyes.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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