silver
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Kipchoge is considered one of the greatest long-distance runners of all time, winning two Olympic marathon golds, plus a silver and bronze over 5000m.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
That’s the chorus of “An American Dream”: “Gold and silver / God and glitter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The device comes in black, silver, burgundy and glacier, and the smaller model provides up to 24 hours of charge, while the larger phone offers up to 30 hours.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
In addition to increasing energy output, this improves the appearance as the silver wires aren't visible.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
But as he watched, there rose from the water a herd of horses; horses with long tails and fins, colored silver and sea-green, leaping like dolphins from the water.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The Swiss star, who has also won two world silvers and a bronze in the discipline, was the form rider going into the championships.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
American Jake Adicoff, who took two silvers behind McKeever in Beijing, will be hoping to make it to the top of the podium.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
She’d racked up three silvers and two bronzes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
She was asked by reporters whether she assessed her two completed competitions as two silvers won or two golds lost.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Two hundred silvers is a drop in the bucket for him.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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 moonlight had silvered his armor and the gold of his hair, and turned his crimson cloak to black.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
The man, who had silvering hair and wore a black Ariat quarter-zip and jeans, nodded and lowered his voice slightly.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2021
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
This will make the inside surface of the clear plastic a perfect mirror for such rays without any need for the silvering used on common mirrors.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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