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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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South Korea won two golds, one silver and one bronze at the 2023 Asian Games, when eSports made its debut as an official medal event.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Gold settled 0.4% higher, up for a fourth-consecutive session, while silver fell 1.3%, snapping a three-session winning streak.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

He believes there is no silver bullet which will prevent a wildfire starting or spreading but that estates "need to build up layers of defence".

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

In the case of “It Ends,” the unconventional path to the silver screen is especially impressive.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

And, as usual, she’s adorned with silver ankh bracelets and rings.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Overall, Manaudou won six Olympic medals across four appearances at the Games, with three silvers and two bronzes in addition to his gold.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Golds, silvers and bronzes won in Para-events will, unlike with other multi-sport events, count towards the overall medal total.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

After four holes, one of the other golfers who had been struggling joined me at the silvers.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

"This is really the last time," said Sakamoto, who won singles bronze at the 2022 Beijing Games and has two silvers in the team event.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

Dale replied he’d had just about enough of setting by the shipping lane in soup fog for a dozen silvers, a few dogfish, a couple of hake, and what’s more taking flack off his radio.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

A little silvered glass could be worth its weight in gold.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

At 50, still in the blush of youth by today’s silvered political standards, Porter has plenty of highway ahead of her.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2024

Ms Quinn said: "Daguerre developed a way of taking pictures using a polished silvered plate and a camera. This produced a single image printed directly onto a plate with astonishing clarity, named the daguerreotype."

From BBC Feb. 20, 2024

Seventeen years after the Tripod fire, the silvered trunks of dead trees still stand on many slopes.

From Seattle Times May 12, 2023

The Giantslayer and his mount were armored in silvered steel inlaid with niello.

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

Bonlie, a middle-aged man with silvering hair and a cheerful manner, listened attentively as she went through her long list of symptoms and her account of two decades of intermittent misery.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2022

Screen Goo is highly pigmented and has a little silvering in the paint that reflects light back at lots of different angles.

From The Verge Feb. 24, 2020

A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt.

From The New Yorker Dec. 4, 2016

Explain the functions of the various parts, such as the vacuum, the silvering of the walls, the thin-walled long glass neck, the rubber support, the air layer, and the stopper.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

They looked out over the pool with the afternoon sky silvering its surface.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer




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