silver
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Our writer Robbie Shell weighs what to do with the silver service she inherited, which her grown sons don’t want.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
My mom sprayed me silver, in my hair and everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Hunt's performance surpassed American Olympic silver medallist Sha'Carri Richardson, who came third in 11.07.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Swooping up paintings, sculpture, silver, furniture and everyday objects made between 1700 and the 1950s, it vastly expands the definition of art and mixes disparate objects together in loosely chronological galleries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
One by one, Dad pulls out the heavy gold and silver watches.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Every now and then, Apple sets aside its palette of austere silvers and grays, using both color and lower price points to appeal to a broader, mostly younger, audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 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
"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
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
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
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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
And when the clouds finally shredded themselves and the silvered moon looked down upon Phippsburg again, it looked down upon a town strangely changed, its sheds turned into hills, its woodpiles into igloos.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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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
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
He wears his silvering hair short on the sides and has a rainbow friendship bracelet tied around one wrist.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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