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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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“Lioness” and “MobLand” are violent fun, “Colin From Accounts” is terrific, ”Diarra From Detroit” is an underrated gem and the sports lineup is solid.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

This 10,520 square-foot gem in Palm Beach County.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Point Two: Last postseason, even with his three-homer, 10-strikeout gem in the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers, Ohtani had a playoff ERA of 4.43.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

From a lifeless strip of grass to a blossoming garden, Annadale Community Centre's grounds have received a glow up over the past year, becoming a "hidden gem" for all to enjoy.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

It’s a school ring, like the kind you get in college, and it looks old and worn and has a red gem in lite center.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

She transforms a rainbow of blossoms into hair adornments, earrings, necklace pendants and rings, treating her homegrown organic materials like precious gems.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

As I walk into the heart of the 60th Notting Hill Carnival, the sun is shining and bouncing off the sequins, gems and sparkles of the costumes and decorations surrounding me.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

He had helped revive the Atlanta Falcons, led the Rams to the Super Bowl, and developed a knack for unearthing gems in the NFL draft.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Let me conclude with a few gems from the experts I spoke to about life in your 70s.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

They were in a magic world of gems, a glade under trees whose leaves were jewels.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

A search for “Barbie” on the company’s website returns rose-gold jewelry and pink gemmed rings.

From Reuters Jul. 23, 2023

Moreover, the first images of crosses portray them more as slender, gemmed staffs than as sturdy instruments of execution.

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2017

The passing rivers, the sounds rising from street gratings, the gemmed bridges were recognizable in name, but transposed to a different key.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2014

Depicted in his role as minister of justice, he wears an impressively gemmed and starchy crown, but the face below it looks miserable.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2010

The whole constellation, from head to foot, is gemmed with stars which escape the naked eye, but it sparkles like a bead-spangled garment when viewed with the glass.

From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss

Bells of dew glittered upon the bushes rooted in the walls, and upon the ivy-grown pillars; and gemming the countless spiders' webs stretched from bough to bough, showed they were all unbroken.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

CORNFLOWERS, you say, just cornflowers, gemming the golden grain; Ah no!

From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

Its little yellow stars may now be seen gemming the woodsides, when all around is cold, comfortless, and dead.

From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore

Lady Frances observed it, and smiling said,— "You are gemming my ornaments, setting them in crystal instead of gold."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall

Like some palpable, suffocating substance it filled the plain and mounted far up into the air, even to the blue-black sky, whence a million gemming stars pierced it with their diamond lances.

From With Hoops of Steel by Dan Smith




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