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jade

[jeyd] / dʒeɪd /




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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

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

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

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

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

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

I guess after a lifetime of commanding sailors, she's got an unfairly jaded view.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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




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