mellow

We can hardly allow substantive issues to become more pressing while waiting for Xi to mellow or be replaced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Up top are mellow selections made for sipping soda or soju.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

Christian content creator Jordan Boateng "likes to dance a lot" and says there's more to gospel than just "mellow beats".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

That mellow approach made her such an outlier in the vicious world of international figure skating that she might as well have showed up with roller skates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

The four jack-o’-lanterns shed a mellow illumination across the portion of the roof directly beyond the window.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

The inner fire and determination remain, but he is mellower, more mature these days.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

They were considerably mellower than the originals—we got a taste of what those might have been like from a brief preview set performed by the blues guitarist and singer Memphis Gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

She’s the mellower, more successful envy of Williams’ character, and yet kind of a regular companion.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

Played live under the big screen on Saturday at the Philadelphia Film Center, this grinding score occasionally lightens for moments of mellower mournfulness.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

Quackenbush felt mellower by the end of the afternoon as we stood on the float in front of the Crew House, gathering up towels.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Even the mellowest teens are raging against the pandemic quarantine.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2020

Koenig, who carries himself like the mellowest dude at a black-tie event, doesn’t mind if a listener takes something real in his lyrics for something imagined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

“Music After the Fall,” like the blog, addresses a vast range of music, from the gnarliest experimentalism to the mellowest minimalism, and Rutherford-Johnson applies a critical intelligence that is at once rigorous and generous.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018

Take Cooke on the JFK campaign trail, the mellowest, most eloquent boy on the bus, and contrast him with Team Media 2012.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2012

I say, but the master-at-arms seems to be ignoring me now, so I direct the question to the skull with a rose in its mouth, figuring it might be the mellowest one.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

"Can y'all come straighten it up over here? It's not looking luxurious," Sean "Diddy" Combs says in a voice note to his personal assistants as R&B music mellows in the background.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

As the garden mellows and dies down, potted plants take center stage with their fresh foliage and seasonal shadings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023

A generous amount of ginger, cut into matchsticks, mellows and softens as it cooks, and adds a brightness that perks up the deeper flavors.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

They were mysterious as daytime ghosts; and already a heartbreaking picturesqueness had taken possession of the streets, as an artist-decorator comes into an ugly room and mellows all its crudeness with his loving touch.

From Everyman's Land by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Also stripping out energy prices, inflation mellowed to 2.6 percent from 2.9 percent, while headline unadjusted inflation was 1.5 percent, down from 2.1 percent.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Mr. Mamdani’s election was taken as a sign that the socialist movement had mellowed and matured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

It’s intense with a touch of bitterness that’s not necessarily unappealing, but adds a layer of acidity that can be mellowed out with your favorite creamer, milk or sugar.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

But he’s since mellowed, even giving press episodes early to screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

Even Helene Wright had mellowed with the cane, waving away apologies for drinks spilled on her rug and paying no attention whatever to the chocolate cake lying on the arm of her red-velvet sofa.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

“Dancing on the Ceiling” does the opposite, starting with very verbose Art Tatum-style arpeggios in the verse but then mellowing out in the chorus, and quoting “All This and Heaven Too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

“In most lives there arrives a mellowing, a lovely autumnal calm that overtakes even the stormiest personalities,” Chernow writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

In Bourbon County, the local water is naturally filtered through mellowing limestone, which removes every trace of iron, the nemesis of good whiskey.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2023

Though Harley and Ivy’s honeymoon phase is already beginning to wane as Harley Quinn’s third season opens, the mellowing of their relationship’s something the series never really frames as a sign of danger.

From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2022

The moment she had put her foot on the step leading up to the porch, she saw her ripeness mellowing and rotting before a heap of red velvet scraps on a round oak table.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison