silver
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While Alessandro is decked out in Ferrari red, his girlfriend, Emma, is wearing the silver of Mercedes.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
I suppose the little showman, the little 10-year-old silver showman, came out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
There’s a silver lining to rising interest rates and soaring borrowing costs: Corporate pension funds have finally rebounded after years of deep deficits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
If there is a silver lining, the participation rate of workers in their prime — ages 25 to 54 — was much higher in July and not far from an all-time high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The color palette is silver and rose gold.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Overall, Manaudou won six Olympic medals across four appearances at the Games, with three silvers and two bronzes in addition to his gold.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
Following her second-placed finish in the big air event on Monday, AFP asked her in a press conference whether she considered it "two silvers gained or two golds lost".
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 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
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
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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
One high status woman in her 20s with mixed ancestry was laid to rest near modern Cambridge under a prominent mound with silvered jewelry, amber beads, and a whole cow.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2022
I stare into the silvered gray of his eyes, taking note of the way his brows furrow, forming deep, displeased lines.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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
As soon as the silvering began, long before the cider cracked the jugs, there was something wrong.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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