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The White House said Melania Trump attended to the details, setting the tables with red blossoms and red linens in a nod to the cultural significance of the color red in China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The colour and honour guard marched up to the aircraft and stood on both sides of the red carpet as two limos pulled up.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Trump and first lady Melania Trump greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, on a red carpet outside the White House on Thursday morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the left map above, the darkest red areas mark the places where the melt season lengthened fastest during that decade.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
On the way, you pass a tall, thin woman with short black hair and perfect red lipstick.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
But why can reds and greys not live cheek by jowl?
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
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
He wore Roman sandals with the lacings coming to his knees, a short skirt of feathers and a war bonnet all of which were painted in bright reds, blues and yellows.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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
And with higher sugar concentrations, a pigment called anthocyanin is produced, making the leaves even redder.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
But even some humans can perceive infrared, and when exposed to longer wavelength infrared light in particular ways, may perceive a pale green or slightly redder color.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
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
Mini turned even redder, now looking like a tomato’s mutant cousin.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
"It's the reddest, dustiest red supergiant that we've seen explode as a supernova," Suresh said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 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
It tasted unbelievably tender, like the reddest steak, with a whiff of fish in the fattier bits.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2022
She had a face full of freckles and the reddest hair I’d ever seen, pulled up into a sloppy, lopsided bun on top of her head.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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
"What! not remember moonlight, and Muschat's Cairn, and Rob and Rat?" said he, with the same sneer;—"Your memory needs redding up, my jo."
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
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
"Are you going to be all day redding up them rooms?" pursued the voice.
From The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin
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