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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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Pandora was also hit by a more than doubling of the price of silver in 2025, in response to which it boosted its use of platinum-plated jewellery, including in Vietnam.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The one silver lining is that businesses aren’t firing many people, either: Layoffs are near a record low, and show no sign of rising.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Spot gold rose and Julius Baer said short-term price gains in gold and silver will likely be limited as long as the Federal Reserve “remains in inflation-fighting mode.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

"This type of work isn't some silver bullet," says Sharp.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Already it had something of the beauty of a full-grown wolf: the slender pale.grey muzzle; large silver ears with their edging of black; elegant, dark-rimmed eyes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

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

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

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

First she tried using the lacquer sheet simply as a mirror, but for lack of a silvered back, all she could see was a doubled reflection faintly in the wood.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

They looked out over the pool with the afternoon sky silvering its surface.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer




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