silver
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To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
With their debut full-length self-titled album released Friday, the same day as their first Hollywood Bowl appearance supporting Al Green, this moment was not handed to them on a silver platter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Gold settled up 0.4% Friday, and silver rose 0.2%, with both metals also posting gains for the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
It meant that O'Connor came top with 6,751 points - a national record - with Oosterwegel taking silver on 6,713 and Netherlands' Sofie Dokter claiming bronze on 6,664.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
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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
China's global superstar Eileen Gu won gold, her first of these Games after two silvers, with 94.75, while compatriot Li Fanghui took silver.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 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
The bidding for Jorah Mormont had reached two hundred silvers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
Her dark hair was cropped short and straight around her head, and she wore riding leathers and a light shirt of silvered ringmail.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
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
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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