silver
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But every cloud has a silver lining, even the cloud of wildfire smoke enveloping your city or town.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Bristle worm jaws also showed size-dependent elasticity. This is a distinguishing feature of bio-metals when compared to standard crystalline metals like copper or silver," said author Christian Hellmich.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
North Wales Police said it received multiple calls about the manner in which the silver Nissan Qashqai was driving before crashing at Marine Drive, with photos showing the vehicle flipped on its roof.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is, however, not all negative as the report points to the rise of the "silver economy" -- a growing market for goods and services for older citizens.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
They came in their hundreds, silver and white and pearl.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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’d racked up three silvers and two bronzes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
"This is really the last time," said Sakamoto, who won singles bronze at the 2022 Beijing Games and has two silvers in the team event.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
On that occasion, they brought home two gold medals, three silvers and five bronze from Budapest.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
Dale replied he’d had just about enough of setting by the shipping lane in soup fog for a dozen silvers, a few dogfish, a couple of hake, and what’s more taking flack off his radio.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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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
It was a slim enough staff to lean on, but the Jon Arryn that Ned Stark had known was not one to wear jeweled and silvered plate.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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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