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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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But those threads are waiting to be unspooled on your own trip to Hollywood via the silver screen.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

“This silver tsunami of business retirements means the local economy, the local community lose these economic engines.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

Sounds like a Hollywood script that might never see the silver screen.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Front-month gold closes down 0.2% to $4,145.30 a troy ounce, while silver drops 1.6% to $60.931 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Her sweeping black dress was covered in silver stars, and a heavy moon pendant hung from a long chain around her neck.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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

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 came to Livigno, in the Italian Alps, seeking to sweep the board but has so far missed out on gold, winning two silvers, in slopestyle and big air.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

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

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 when the clouds finally shredded themselves and the silvered moon looked down upon Phippsburg again, it looked down upon a town strangely changed, its sheds turned into hills, its woodpiles into igloos.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Bonlie, a middle-aged man with silvering hair and a cheerful manner, listened attentively as she went through her long list of symptoms and her account of two decades of intermittent misery.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2022

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

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

The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron




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