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The congressional investigation flopped like a soccer player fishing to draw a red card, finally concluding in 1998.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Rondo isn’t the only company looking to reduce emissions from heat used in manufacturing: Another startup, Antora, uses carbon blocks for its battery that glow red when heated up—also like a toaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The planet, called LHS 1140 b, is 48 light-years from Earth orbiting a red star much smaller and cooler than our Sun.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In roughly 5 billion years, the sun will reach a late stage of its life and expand into a red giant.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
His face is red and his nostrils flare.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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
“When you get into the wedding scene, everybody is in pinks, soft reds, oranges and yellows,” Maciek said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
In the 2026 competition, six reds have been brandished already.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
After yesterday's first session, O'Sullivan led 7-2, and stretched that advantage with a break of 62 before potting nine reds and eight blacks at the start of the 10th frame.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The lake would sparkle with reds and blues and greens, like a mirror, and the picnickers would make low sounds of appreciation.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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
With his face growing redder, he furiously bellowed at Mr Davies for thinking he could "turn up here this afternoon and claim some sort of moral high ground?"
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2023
For example, a breeder might want to make the fruits larger, more firm or redder in color.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
Didn’t think it was possible, but Bat Boy turns even redder.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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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
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
After his first few days on set, he returned to his dressing room to find an enormous bouquet of, as he put it, “the biggest and reddest roses I’ve seen in my life.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Danny Mitchell—he of the reddest hair in our school—turns around from the seat in front of us, sipping from a juice box.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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Mrs. Truman was redding up her rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He had been ushered out by the Boarder, who was still actively engaged in "redding up."
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris
The room is, of course, very clear and clean and simple: not by any means cheaply equipped, but designed to economize the labor of redding and repair just as much as possible.
From The Cost of Shelter by Richards, Ellen H.
He is generally an "auld residenter;" great, therefore, at the redding up of pedigrees.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
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