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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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It was metallic blue for Hernandez, silver for Ysabel Jurado and ultraviolet for her own historic primary upset in June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Gold settled 0.2% higher, snapping a two-session losing streak, while silver fell 0.5%, down two of the past three sessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

If they instead vote in person, a silver lining is that positive personal experiences with poll workers are also associated with increased voter trust.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Five years on, Wiegman has pocketed two more European Championships and acquired another silver medal on the global stage.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Miss Lacey was waiting with a silver beaded-fringe cap in one hand and a black-feathered headband in the other, but when she saw me, her arms dropped to her sides.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

The 24-year-old, who has 11 international medals, has also been denied in her three attempts to win world gold outdoors, achieving two silvers and one bronze.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 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

But Gu, who now has three Olympic golds and three silvers in total, produced a dazzling performance in the second round to wow the judges.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

He was happy to find there were salmon coming up as well, big silvers mostly over ten and eleven pounds, a half-dozen ten-pound chums, too, even three resident black-mouth.

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

Bronze Yohn's heir, Ser Andar Royce, and his younger brother Ser Robar, their silvered steel plate filigreed in bronze with the same ancient runes that warded their father.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

It may have been 44 years ago, but how does a Milwaukeean of a certain, silvering age not remember the last time the Brewers were in the World Series?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

As soon as the silvering began, long before the cider cracked the jugs, there was something wrong.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison


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