jade

In July 1986, workers at a brick factory in southwestern China were digging for clay when they hit upon something unexpected: dozens of dazzling pieces of jade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

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

Jewels danced when he moved his hands; onyx and opal, tiger’s eye and tourmaline, ruby, amethyst, sapphire, emerald, jet and jade, a black diamond, and a green pearl.

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

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

To become jaded is an occupational hazard when you’ve reviewed 2,000 movies, but I was genuinely excited to see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

Number 39 is an old, jaded cinema that you walk down into.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

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