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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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But new heroes stepped up for the host nation, most notably swimmer Angharad Evans who won two golds, a silver and a bronze.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

"I was in silver then bronze then nearly cleared a PB to go back up to silver," said Heard.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Among their listed expenses in 2021 was $3,542 in storage costs for silver and platinum holdings.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Previously, the couple made nearly a half-million dollars trading silver bars in 2011 alone.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 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

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

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

China's global superstar Eileen Gu won gold, her first of these Games after two silvers, with 94.75, while compatriot Li Fanghui took silver.

From BBC Feb. 22, 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

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

Seventeen years after the Tripod fire, the silvered trunks of dead trees still stand on many slopes.

From Seattle Times May 12, 2023

And there she was, for the last time, in the silvered glass: Calliope.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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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