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[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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And not just because the days are shorter, the nights are cooler and the leaves are blazing in bursts of yellow, red and gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026

They possessed the familiar black body segments near the head and yellow spines characteristic of the genus, but one feature stood out.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Phem Phan, a 65-year-old worker wearing a yellow hard-hat and a faded blue shirt, sees another, more practical advantage to working with the French.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Among the flags on the roof of that Whitehall building is the Ukrainian blue and yellow.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

We leaped high in the air as we jumped over the big yellow pumpkins.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

But seasoned leaf-peepers know that Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park and Shenandoah Valley are equally majestic places for autumn color, thanks to sugar maples, magnolias and more vegetation that erupts in fiery reds, oranges and yellows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

More of the shorter blue wavelengths of light are scattered, allowing the yellows, oranges and reds to become more prominent.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Eight yellows, two of which combined to make Henry Arundell's 20-minute red against Scotland, have hobbled England throughout.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

The yellows are like the palo verde trees that bloom brightly in the streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Underneath the surface, the coral on the seabed glinted with myriad colors, bony fingers of bright oranges, yellows, and pinks speckled by shoals of darting red-striped fish.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

As well as this, "he was just getting yellower and yellower", she said.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

Light bulbs with warmer or yellower tones are more suited to our circadian rhythm than bluer light — that’s why the “night” mode on your smartphone uses them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

It had red writing spelling out the brand name Velveeta, the cheese substance that, depending on your color sense, is either bold gold or yellower than school bus yellow.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

In its crystalline form, sodium nitrite looks like a yellower cousin of table salt.

From Salon ● May 23, 2021

The leaves get smaller and yellower, folding back toward the bud, and the air crisps.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Mallory Ortberg: “Jeeves, bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.”

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017

Fishkill Farms has the best eggs with the yellowest yolks.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016

A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012

Not even the yellowest journals suggested that Banker Morgan was selling his pictures because he needed the money.

From Time Magazine Archive

A long thin hand descended over Margot’s shoulder, the fingers deliberately feeling after the plumpest and yellowest of the berries.

From Big Game A Story for Girls by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

The earliest pages in Lee Him’s file, yellowed with age and ragged at the edges, date to 1908.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

They simply weren’t my taste anymore, and I didn’t like how the resin had yellowed over time.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Fruit stored at 30°C yellowed rapidly, while mangoes kept at 12°C maintained their color longer because chlorophyll breakdown slowed significantly.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

He takes out a faded notepad with loose leaves of paper that have yellowed with age.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

The screen door had a yellowed index card stuck in the wire mesh that said, ENTER.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

As Gray worked with old, yellowing scans of Lee’s drawings in Photoshop, he accidentally inverted the colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

On the yellowing front page, 20 or so young Greenlanders smile, feet planted in the snow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026

I used to resent it when my mother would forget I was an adult, but I’m approaching the maundering phase myself, digging out the yellowing baby pictures, mooning over locks of hair.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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