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yellow

[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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Here, grated yellow summer squash and onion spend the better part of an hour over low heat, slowly becoming soft, sweet and jammy.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

My quickly growing love for yellow had been more of an internal journey.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, a yellow thunderstorm warning is in place for Northern Ireland until 06:00 on Friday, while rain is forecast for much of Scotland.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

A higher interest rate environment usually weighs on noninterest yielding assets such as the yellow metal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Then, with one yellow, claw-like finger, she touched the amulet at her breast, and began tracing the spiral.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Does the number of yellows match the number of fouls?

From BBC Jul. 8, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

I crept along, walking a southern walk in southern weather, closing my eyes from time to time against the dazzling reds, yellows and greens of cheap sport shirts and summer dresses.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

Many of the nation's rivers turn yellower in spring or summer as peaking rainfall muddies the waters.

From Scientific American Apr. 8, 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

They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Mother,” suddenly said Helena, the younger girl, “while you were out this morning I met a blind girl with the longest and yellowest hair I have ever seen.”

From A Vendetta of the Desert by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

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

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

Olanna looked away from the man’s lined face and yellowed eyes; he was older than she had first thought, certainly above sixty.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

The rest of the yellowing is a sign not of bad hygiene but of natural teeth “within a range of normal for that age,” Taylor said.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2025

As she walked about the yellowing hillsides or worked at easy tasks, her lips were curled in a perpetual fatuous smile.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck




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