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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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That’s the chorus of “An American Dream”: “Gold and silver / God and glitter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The device comes in black, silver, burgundy and glacier, and the smaller model provides up to 24 hours of charge, while the larger phone offers up to 30 hours.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

This was a trial run of the Super Age Games, a contest that gamifies our culture’s growing obsession with extending well-being deep into our silver years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The actual showroom-ready Type 01 that Jaguar showed off nearly two years after that first brand film is silver, with an “orchid white” interior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Already it had something of the beauty of a full-grown wolf: the slender pale.grey muzzle; large silver ears with their edging of black; elegant, dark-rimmed eyes.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The Swiss star, who has also won two world silvers and a bronze in the discipline, was the form rider going into the championships.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

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

The bidding for Jorah Mormont had reached two hundred silvers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Dany glanced at her image in the silvered looking glass that Illyrio had so thoughtfully provided.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

"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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