jade

GUANGHAN, China—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

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

I spotted Mara’s jade sash, tied in a belt around her waist.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

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

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

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

When set against the newfound organisation and vigour of this Rangers set-up then Celtic look jaded.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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

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

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

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