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On that slow, gray afternoon, she was brainstorming for her long-anticipated comeback to the biweekly municipal gathering.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Marsak, who admits to “a fetish for old, lost Los Angeles,” once called the Beaux-Arts hotel a “great gray monument to grinding attrition.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
She is perched on a couch in the presidential suite on the 24th floor of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Miami, with a panoramic view of gray clouds hanging low over the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
With a color palette of white, gray, and black, the eye-catching space features wood beams, walls of glass, and a sleek kitchen with three islands.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“The barracks are gray, Corrie, but we’ll paint them green! Bright, light green, like springtime.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Presidents famously age during their terms, often starting off looking hale and hearty and, by the time they’re finished, appearing tired, more lined and a whole lot grayer than when they started.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
But gravity-defying themes such as semiconductors in recent weeks have lured older, grayer investors as well as Wall Street pros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
In prediction markets, the rules are considerably grayer, as the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance detailed last month.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026
Joanna Landry could feel her hair getting grayer by the minute.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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Presumably the same is true of the grayest day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
More than 1 in 5 people are over 65, a rate on par with some of the world’s grayest nations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 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
To Ramsey, even to Hugh, obstacles were almost welcome, as enabling them to show to a prying world that nothing beyond the grayest commonplace was occurring between them.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
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
Grace’s world may be awash in browns and grays and beiges, yet Elliot somehow makes that color palette feel vibrant and alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Her mom seemed to favor blacks and grays, sometimes browns or olives.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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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
“Literally nothing?” the CNN anchor said in disbelief during the live broadcast when the Magic Wall showed a grayed out map.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
Slender 3-to-4-foot stems topped by pendant umbels of ivory, grayed wine and green echo the subtle coloration of the rose.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
Ralph had aged visibly since the last time many of the people in the courtroom had seen him; I could hear murmurs about how his hair had grayed.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Clad in prosthetics with a head full of graying hair, Cruise is far from his usual stunts-heavy, bravado-filled roles, which could make his typical audience less likely to come out to theaters, analysts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Now the baby boomers and the silent generation are going back to school, as Goucher stakes its financial future on the graying of America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
It was hard to tell who was happier: the current team or those graying alums, proud to at last have company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Behind him, a mature Joshua tree was dying, its graying limbs drooping sadly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Jelly was a wiry-looking older man with graying hair.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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