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jade

[jayd] / dʒeɪd /




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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

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

These days, “practicing gratitude” seems to come bundled with jade rollers, superfoods and the kind of journals that include prompts like “What’s your vibration today?”

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024

In the center of the living room floor was a large white cloth with a pile of her mother’s jewelry, her father’s special watches, jade figurines, money, and other precious items.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

At first, “China Institute Gallery at 60, 1966-2026: Selections From Three Millennia of Chinese Art” appears to be a straightforward survey in just under 90 objects, covering Neolithic carved jades through contemporary ink paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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

He chose among the finest bronzes, jades, calligraphy and pottery from the vast Afghan antique collection he had amassed in Austria over the decades, which arrived at the fair earlier this week..

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

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

In Prime Video’s “Spider-Noir,” he played Ben Reilly, a hapless and jaded private eye who used to moonlight as a masked vigilante known as the Spider until the love of his life was murdered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Saylor is not an obvious candidate for jaded people to revere.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

During the public meeting, the jaded panel members admitted several times that the science supporting the compounded substances was inadequate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

As a jaded millennial, I consider myself immune to claims that anything can give me abs or pecs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

But now I see you’re just like every other jaded so-called adult I’ve ever met.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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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