silver
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No one is claiming the settlement is a silver bullet, but it's likely Meta and its fellow social media companies will continue to face scrutiny over the safety of children and adults on its platforms.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It also produces silver, copper, lead and gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
But in the case of “It Ends,” the unconventional path to the silver screen is especially impressive.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Soon she was flapping a piece of rounded dough between her hands, placing it in the large silver skillet of hot oil on the stove in front of her.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
She came to Livigno, in the Italian Alps, seeking to sweep the board but has so far missed out on gold, winning two silvers, in slopestyle and big air.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
She’d racked up three silvers and two bronzes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Knight, who powered the United States into Monday’s Olympic semifinal, is one of the most accomplished female hockey players in the world: an Olympic gold medal, three Olympic silvers and 10 world championship medals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
The bidding for Jorah Mormont had reached two hundred silvers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
One high status woman in her 20s with mixed ancestry was laid to rest near modern Cambridge under a prominent mound with silvered jewelry, amber beads, and a whole cow.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2022
First she tried using the lacquer sheet simply as a mirror, but for lack of a silvered back, all she could see was a doubled reflection faintly in the wood.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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
A typical example: “The moon is a sickled leopard’s tooth pinned to obsidian, its light silvering the violent undulations scoring the skin of your unforgiving water.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 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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