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red

[red] / rɛd /




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When asked later if JPMorgan sat on red flags in Epstein’s accounts, including the withdrawals, for years, Staley responded, “Seems like it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

"The question is truly opened whether this companion is going to have an impact on the evolution of the red supergiant," concludes Montargès.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

An adult purple gallinule has a bright purple and green body with a pale blue marking that resembles a shield above its red and yellow bill.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Shorter blue wavelengths scattering more easily, while more of the longer wavelength red light reaches the moon.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

My eyes are fixed on one of the men; he’s wearing a dark red jacket.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

A Bordeaux-style blend that embodies Black Ankle’s strength: elegant and ageable reds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

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

I know a sommelier ready to pour some earthy organic reds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 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

Jellied eels and Domish reds filled their afternoon.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

He got redder and redder in the face, yelling and leading the crowd in chants of “Shame on Sliwa!”

From Slate Nov. 5, 2025

"SN2025pht is surprising because it appeared much redder than almost any other red supergiant we've seen explode as a supernova," Kilpatrick added.

From Science Daily Oct. 9, 2025

And with higher sugar concentrations, a pigment called anthocyanin is produced, making the leaves even redder.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2025

The second had redder hair than the first and slightly longer horns.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

And for the open seat in Iowa, Democrats seem likely to nominate a two-time Paralympic gold medalist who represents the reddest state house seat held by a Democrat.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2026

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

When we get home, she always takes it out back and breaks it open against a rock, then scoops out the heart of it—the sweetest, reddest part—and hands it to me.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

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

He is generally an "auld residenter;" great, therefore, at the redding up of pedigrees.

From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

For brick hearths use redding mixed with thin starch and milk.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

The world had neglected nothing in its redding up.

From The Judge by Rebecca West




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