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ACA -2.42%decrease; red down pointing triangle posted a rise in its third-quarter profit, helped by a strong performance in investment banking and its asset management unit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s not that Schoenbrun is bad at making movies, but their mind seems to operate like a story map, with hundreds of red strings pinned between plot points.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Liev Schreiber owned up to his intense behavior at the “Nocturne” premiere last week, apologizing for scolding a red carpet reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
"We know the strikes will resume, and that they will increase," said Dima, as he and his wife prepared to visit their flat in the red zone for the first time in several months.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The badger lumbered through the mossy gate, heading toward the throbbing red light.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
"Greys outcompete reds for habitat and food - they don't actually physically attack them but they do bother them," said Foott.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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
“The reds all say ‘Pick a Yellow Card,’” he reported.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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Over such vast distances, the expansion of the universe stretches light to longer, redder wavelengths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 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
Grey squirrels are generally seen as less cuddly, and their very existence apparently spells death for their redder cousins.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
Two eyes, redder than rubies, looked down at us.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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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
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
Pasqual had the reddest hair I have ever seen in my life.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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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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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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He that middles wi' tulzies may come in for the redding stroke.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Amarilly substituted a work apron for the little white covering, and was soon engaged in "redding."
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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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