jade
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Their yearly reproduction depended on elusive environmental factors, the author writes, “unlike other extractive industries such as tin or jade, where ‘X marks the spot’ could hold over a period of years or decades.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Zhao, a woman sporting an intricately carved gold medallion on a necklace of jade beads and shimmering bangles on her wrist, brought her late grandfather's ring to the recycling machine.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
They used elaborate red, green, and cream wallpaper throughout, and other staged rooms were painted jade and burgundy.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
Maybe that’s the most Goop thing of all — her “ridiculous” lifestyle has become our reality, not because we believe in jade eggs, but because we can’t stop believing in the fantasy of aspirational food.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
She lifted her jade fan and opened it.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
Most of the grounds were covered with refuse and thickets of common SoCal landscaping plants — jades, ivy, vinca and morning glory — and he’s been reshaping the garden ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
Given that, the robes and jades just didn’t fit.
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
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For a jaded adult, reading children’s books can also recall the discoveries of a younger self.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
One of the best things about working with young people, I’ve found, is that they aren’t jaded.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
For a moment it felt as if her bones had spontaneously reshattered, but the feeling passed and settled into jaded resolve.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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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 Henry W. Nevinson
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 Stephen Lucius Gwynn
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 August W. Almqvist
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