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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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Olympic silver medallist Katarina Johnson-Thompson has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games because of injury.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The photographic technologies utilized begin with daguerreotypes and include stereoscopic prints, a cyanotype, gelatin silver prints, large-format chromogenic works and images created with digital manipulation, neatly demonstrating the show’s long time span.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Still, there have been some silver linings in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

His current haul of 18 - seven gold, four silver and a further seven bronze - is not bad going.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Seven tries this time, and then a fish dancing silver on the end of her line.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

The 24-year-old, who has 11 international medals, has also been denied in her three attempts to win world gold outdoors, achieving two silvers and one bronze.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2026

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

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

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

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

From Seattle Times May 12, 2023

Dany glanced at her image in the silvered looking glass that Illyrio had so thoughtfully provided.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

With his planed features and silvering hair, Mr. van Hove is perfectly nice to look at.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2015

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

"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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