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jade

[jeyd] / dʒeɪd /




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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

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

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

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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