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red

[red] / rɛd /




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Lucky to avoid red card for his reactionary shove on Rodrigo Bentancur?

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

A red tag marks a building as unsafe to enter, and a yellow tag restricts its use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Alejandro, 13, said that the sight of his father’s red and black Monte Carlo parked outside of their family home “just makes me miss him a lot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Driven by nostalgia—and maybe the apocalypse—an army of ‘phone spotters’ is racing against the clock to rescue the U.K.’s remote red boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then, with a flourish, Corrie shook open the cloth and turned it around to display a magnificent crown embroidered in red, purple, and gold.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

White wines, they said, came in heavier than the reds this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The right map above illustrates that shift, with lighter reds and blues showing much smaller rates of change during that decade.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Today I see a boom in Ukrainian wineries," he said, noting that from full-bodied reds in the south to the crisp whites of the west, "our terroirs and climate are incredibly diverse".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

A few months ago at the Pasadena City College Swap Meet, Whitley watched Saar pass stall after stall, ignoring all the wrong blues and reds, until something suddenly caught her attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

There are three different shades of orange AND lots of reds and yellows so you can make your own orange.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

These stars shine with a bright blue color that makes them appear much younger than the older, redder stars surrounding them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

As Arizona yielded to New Mexico, the dirt seemed to get redder and the ridges rose to form buttes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

The closer the moon is to the Earth during an eclipse, the redder it looks, making it a super blood moon.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2024

They are sweeter and redder, more candylike than acidic.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2023

He saw her eyes widen, her face getting redder.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

It’s an oasis for arts, tasteful wealth, and Southern manners in one of the reddest parts of the country.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

And for the open seat in Iowa, Democrats seem likely to nominate a two-time Paralympic gold medalist who represents the reddest state house seat held by a Democrat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

Union steamfitter Dan Osborn is running against incumbent Republican Sen. Deb Fischer in Nebraska, one of the country's reddest states — and there are signs that the race could be much closer than expected.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024

The research team looked for the reddest stars, and found 1,001 pinpoint sources of light, most of them young stars still embedded in their dusty cocoons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023

Angular and elegant, he was precariously thin, with nervous hands and a shrewd albino face and a short, fiery mop of the reddest hair I had ever seen.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Mrs. Truman was redding up her rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Iran's young Shah came to power 20,000 Russian troops were camped outside Teheran, redding up their tanks for a triumphal entry into the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harrietta did a good deal of tidying and dusting and redding up in her own two-room apartment, so high and bright and spotless.

From Gigolo by Edna Ferber

The children seeing their little duties lie in action close around them, began to try each one to do something that she suggested towards redding up the slatternly room.

From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It seems like I can't stay up another ten minutes," Grandma excused herself, "after the field work and redding up and such.

From Across the Fruited Plain by Florence Crannell Means




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