reddish

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A March 2 satellite image of Shiraz, three days into the war, showed a reddish plume near one of the demolished launchers, indicating that nitric acid fuel was leaking from a missile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

“Those are my gold,” she said, because she uses those short ends to add reddish designs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

The most familiar example of a red supergiant is Betelguese, the bright reddish star in the shoulder of the constellation Orion.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025

With his white-gold eyebrows and whiskers and beard, and plump, good-natured, reddish face, Otto looks very much like a young Santa Claus.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez