silver
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Edinburgh native Kerr has won medals representing Great Britain at both the Olympics - picking up bronze in 2020 and silver in 2024 - and World Championships, having taken gold in 2023.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The silver lining of Friday’s report is that the core index, excluding volatile food and energy, rose 2.4% year-over-year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The contracts quickly rose in volume, and Kalshi on Thursday launched perpetual futures linked to gold and silver, also the first of their kind in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
One silver lining in the housing market is that supply is at nearly a seven-year high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Didn’t that sound like a fine place—folks sitting around studying gold and silver all day!
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Golds, silvers and bronzes won in Para-events will, unlike with other multi-sport events, count towards the overall medal total.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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
It was a line: a curved line, like a loosely scribbled letter C, and it was sparkling and flickering in a zigzag pattern of blacks and whites and silvers.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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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
Seventeen years after the Tripod fire, the silvered trunks of dead trees still stand on many slopes.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
He came back with a flagon erf pale amber wine and a small silvered looking glass in an ornate golden frame.
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
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
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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