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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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Fire crews and the air ambulance were also called to the incident that involved a red Peugeot 107 and a silver Volkswagen Passat.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Another important discovery followed in 2022, when archaeologists identified nearby burials of elite craftspeople accompanied by gold, silver, and bronze tools.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

“That may be what the declining silver price is telling us now, because silver’s value is approximately 50% monetary and 50% commodity,” said Samuelson.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

It was alight with silver; it looked alive, an ancient, breathing thing.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

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

Russia topped the medal table with 13 golds, 13 silvers and seven bronzes, while Mexico and Mongolia competed at a Winter Paralympics for the first time.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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

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

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

Tire high officers arrived in a body; Maester Aemon leaning on Clydas, Ser Alliser cold-eyed and grim, Lord Commander Mormont resplendent in a black wool dou-blet with silvered bearclaw fastenings.

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

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

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

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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