jade

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

Because this is a low-key charity gig, the staging and lighting are minimal; but the star makes the room shrink, shimmying around in a jade green ballgown with irrepressible energy.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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

The water below them was as smooth as a jade plate and melted into the horizon.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

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

By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

“A jaded cynicism has come over investors,” said Paul Donovan, chief global economist at UBS Wealth Management.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

It is a stage Gordon has relished, having sounded like someone who had grown a little jaded with how the Premier League had become "a lot slower and a lot more set-piece based".

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Some of the revelations in the reports are shocking even to the jaded.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

Bunny took a jaded bite of the cheesecake.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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 Nevinson, Henry W.

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 Almqvist, August W.

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 Gwynn, Stephen Lucius