jade

Sailing west across the Pacific for three months, the ships brought silver coins from Spain's American colonies to Manila, where they would be exchanged for luxury goods like silk, porcelain and jade from China.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Because this is a low-key charity gig, the staging and lighting are minimal; but the star makes the room shrink, shimmying around in a jade green ballgown with irrepressible energy.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

What the author gets at in every example, from Kokopelli petroglyphs to fragile jade flutes and the lush sets and experimental sounds of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a common longing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

They used elaborate red, green, and cream wallpaper throughout, and other staged rooms were painted jade and burgundy.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

She’s wearing some ancient jade jewelry that belonged to Gran.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

A steady stream of freshly published books crosses my desk in which the authors insist that the American workplace jades employees and managers alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

No matter how much this city jades you, that hope of getting “discovered” is stubborn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

When the Young family donated a collection of Chinese robes and jades to the Tacoma Art Museum in the 1970s, they intended it to stay there forever.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2013

Qing porcelain with square seal-style marks and imperial jades, both of which suit current tastes, are sure to go on rising in the New York Asian Week this month and later in Hong Kong.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2011

The reds and yellows of common flame warred against the emeralds and jades of wildfire, each color flaring and then fading, birthing armies of short-lived shadows to die again an instant later.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It’s the jaded who succumb to violence and hopelessness, dragging everyone down with them.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

“A jaded cynicism has come over investors,” said Paul Donovan, chief global economist at UBS Wealth Management.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Mr. Pappalardo has a novelist’s gifts for description and pacing, and his material—greedy entrepreneurs, crafty moonshiners, crooked politicos and jaded cops—is material any writer would welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Whatever the result, this was a poor performance by Arsenal, who looked jaded compared to a fresh Bournemouth side who had not played for three weeks.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

They weren’t jaded, and now they’d been galvanized and united.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

It is very difficult now, after all that has crowded in upon us, jading the sensitive recipient surface of memory, to reconstitute the frame of mind in which we passed those days.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

No worldly samples Of honors jading Shall wreath your temples With laurels fading; But bright, eternal, shall thee entrance The blessed holies' inheritance.

From The Angel of Death by Almqvist, August W.

To adapt a Baconian phrase, the weather is the one subject that you cannot dull by jading it too far.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.