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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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Gold settled 0.4% lower, down for a second-consecutive session, while silver rose 0.1%, up three of the past four sessions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

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

This included six gold, three silver and two bronze, the most successful Commonwealth return for the sport.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Not the former Olympic silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Within its grasp was a glass cylinder, and within that was a yellowed piece of paper tied up with a silver string.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

But Gu, who now has three Olympic golds and three silvers in total, produced a dazzling performance in the second round to wow the judges.

From Barron's Feb. 22, 2026

Knight, who powered the United States into Monday’s Olympic semifinal, is one of the most accomplished female hockey players in the world: an Olympic gold medal, three Olympic silvers and 10 world championship medals.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 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

The man, who had silvering hair and wore a black Ariat quarter-zip and jeans, nodded and lowered his voice slightly.

From New York Times May 4, 2021

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

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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