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[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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But now, the yellow metal is caught in a tug-of-war.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Color was then added as an artistic interpretation, with blue used for the morning view and yellow for the afternoon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Rising yields and a strong U.S. dollar will likely keep the macro backdrop challenging for the yellow metal, the team adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Wilson was then sin-binned and South Africa finally got their first score of the second half with a penalty try, with Ryan Lonergan yellow carded as well.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

But in the drawing there’s a glow coming through the cracks, a yellow warmth, a ray of light.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

An FIA spokesperson said that a single yellow was shown initially, before it was upgraded to a double yellows, by which time Antonelli and Russell had gone through.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

However, there will only be a narrow corridor for the VAR to overturn second yellows.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

Visitors can expect yellows and splashes of orange, with more flowers sprouting every day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

There was the same iron bedstead, and the quilt was multicolored, faded but still cheerful with reds and blues and greens and yellows.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

If the sky looks blue, that could also make the sun look yellower.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023

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

I stood quietly in the doorway in my black sheath and my black stole with the fringe, yellower than ever, but expecting less.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Even with that, certain staid and substantial customers were horrified to find that the yellowest of yellow newspapers had supplanted their conservative favorite, that evening.

From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely

Hook always wanted to bite Cosmo with his few remaining yellowed, tiny teeth that Delilah compared to candy corn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

One of the most intimate items in the collection is Monroe's 1950s brassiere that the auction company said had "yellowed due to age" and was inherited by Monroe's acting coach Paula Strasberg.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Another pile of garbage bags sits in front of the sink, doing nothing to hide the yellowed linoleum flooring that’s cracked and peeling where it meets the worn brown carpeting of the living room.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

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

Beneath those were strips of yellowing shoe patterns and a tracing of the actor’s foot with a note written in loopy cursive:

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

Mrs. Hyatt, the kindergarten teacher, loved that messed-up snowman, just three huge balls of yellowing Styrofoam, stuck together with pins and pipes.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper




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