silver
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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
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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
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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
Over the centuries, they had been painted and repainted, gilded, silvered, jeweled.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
"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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