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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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The team next replaced silver ions with silver nanoparticles.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

The character’s silver screen debut in 1985’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” came two years before Ossoff was even born.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

Conversely, the men's team have thrice finished among the Pro League medals since 2022, and won European silver in 2023.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

—Precious metals gained some momentum, with spot gold up 0.5% at $4,397.11 a troy ounce and spot silver advancing 1.5% to $65.63 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 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

Those stunning silvers followed the toughest period of his life, but he put three years of "absolute hell" behind him to win world bronze in 2022 as he re-established himself among the world's best.

From BBC Aug. 12, 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

Following her second-placed finish in the big air event on Monday, AFP asked her in a press conference whether she considered it "two silvers gained or two golds lost".

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

She’d racked up three silvers and two bronzes.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

This lot, half o’ them would turn you over to the queen quick as spit for a pardon and maybe a few silvers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Over the centuries, they had been painted and repainted, gilded, silvered, jeweled.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

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

"Tristran?" asked his father, who at five and thirty was still middling tall and still freckled, although there were more than a few silvering hairs in his nut-brown curls.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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