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HHS’ headquarters was decked out for the event with red, white and blue lighting and posters depicting artificial food dye as a monster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Mine started with garlic, red onion, sun-dried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, fennel, olive oil, spices and an anchovy or two, all piled into a Dutch oven and roasted together.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and Lisa were among some of the celebrities to walk a blue version of the traditional red carpet, ahead of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Four trips to the red zone for the Bills: three touchdowns, one field goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
It’s a red shirt, his red flag, reaching to pull me out of the depths of the endless sticky mud, and I feel again, my fingers slip through his.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
When she learned a colleague could not tell the reds from the greens in a presentation, she stepped in with a colorblind-friendly palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
A full-page illustration from a 13th-century manuscript is resplendent with lovely reds, greens and blues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
About my perception: everything is sharp and clear, each sensation heightened and illuminated so that reds and yellows and blues glow.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
As a galaxy moves away, its light is stretched toward redder wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
Porter was a loyal soldier — she helped local candidates win through endorsements and made progressives in the redder parts of O.C. believe they could run and win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Grey squirrels are generally seen as less cuddly, and their very existence apparently spells death for their redder cousins.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
Poor Jo blushed till she couldn’t blush any redder, and her heart began to beat uncomfortably fast as she thought what she had said.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
For followers of medical disinformation, the claim that autism is linked to childhood vaccinations is the reddest of red flags.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
It tasted unbelievably tender, like the reddest steak, with a whiff of fish in the fattier bits.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2022
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
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
Mrs. Truman was redding up her rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
At ten of the following morning Mrs. Jensen had finished "redding up," as she called it, and had gone out into the yard.
From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Emerson Hough
Mercer was busy putting food and a keg of water into a light sloop, and a tall Indian was aboard redding out the sails.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
The world had neglected nothing in its redding up.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
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