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[gray] / greɪ /


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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

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

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

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

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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