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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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Here’s how to make the most out of the sprawling Hill Country, which even as it is changing still feels like a hidden gem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

He finished his regular season with a gem against the Giants last week: seven three-hit innings on just 75 pitches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

When you find one that is gracious enough to host you, it can feel like discovering a rare gem in a mine of homebodies and those siloed to their own friend groups or families.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

"The last couple of weeks in training, he has been amazing. I think we have got a gem there, to be honest."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Spurge whammed the bottom of the box one last time, and the gem jumped out.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Johnson’s public comments are usually motivational gems such as “When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

These gems are surrounded by a wealth of period garments, accessories, artworks, posters, sketches, photographs and clips from over 50 silent movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

During the episode, bakers made American-style cookies, recreated iced gems and created a "visually striking" biscuit mosaic.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Here are some of the hacks, quirks and unexpected gems that readers shared for getting the most out of a $65 annual membership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But I don't leave because he has eyes like gems that make me want to stay, even when he says the wrong thing.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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 woodlands and forest tops on the high hills caught the sun’s first ray, which, widening and extending, soon gemmed the landscape with a varying brightness.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield

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

And so all the magnificence and beauty of the daily heavens, and the nightly gemming of the empty places with perpetually burning stars, are lost to them!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night-dew gemming his mustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with I know not what vultures tearing his liver.

From International Short Stories English by Various

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

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

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


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