gray
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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
In acute situations, they turn to a more reliable alternative: gray trash bags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
This Pacific Ocean is the true one: silty, cold, gray and hostile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Standing barefoot outside his home at 8th Street and Balboa Boulevard, holding a cup of coffee, Ross Stewart, 79, stared at the gray sky and at the berms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The gray Flash plays out like it’s happening right then and there.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
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
Parking isn’t one of them, and anyone who really wants to have an easy time parking a car will soon head for grayer pastures.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2023
Tom Weylin, grayer, thinner, grimmer-looking than ever, came over to me.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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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 on the grayest of gray November days last year that I had the unhappy thought of revisiting this love of my youth.
From Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
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
The two cranes were intertwined in the clouds, silvery blues and grays, and Ma had added a large circle of gold and yellow threads above them.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
They’re seemingly white at a distance, but look closely, and you’ll find each pearly bloom has watercolor shades of blue, grass green and grayed mauve with a golden center.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 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
The swing set was just sitting there, abandoned, the two little swings hanging still and sad from a grayed plank of wood, the outline of the seats like a kid’s drawing of a smile.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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Their graying jowls appear to be melting alongside the polar ice caps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
The alarm was immediate, with lawmakers and pundits invoking the specter of a graying, shrinking America unable to fund its elders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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
And sure enough, the man Harry had seen in the Daily Prophet was following along in Percy’s wake, limping slightly, his mane of graying hair and his black cloak flecked with snow.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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