yellow
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She got a yellow thermos like the one in the film, which, miraculously, never seems to run out of java, even when the coffee pot is busted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Bellingham's yellow card was retracted after a video assistant referee review and Romero was given a yellow.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
On a recent Thursday he was inside a black cage stuffed with yellow wires checking a cross-connect cable that links one customer’s operation to another’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Outside Sacramento, Calif., dozens of workers in yellow vests do stretches before going out to lay a continuous, five-mile-long fiber-optic cable under the city.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
She’d already removed the mask and untied the yellow beak that she’d made with paint and scrap pieces lying about.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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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
To corners, to free-kicks and second yellows to name three.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The yellows are like the palo verde trees that bloom brightly in the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Along the borders of the rich lady’s sari were embroidered flurries of blossoms in pale yellows and pinks twined with green leaves.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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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
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
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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
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The most sensational accounts of the yellowest journals fell far short of the truth—simply because its full horror was beyond the power of words to portray.
From A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work by Clara Barton
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
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
Stained with mud and yellowed from age, its significance may be hard to spot at first.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
“My favorite researchers,” he said, his teeth strong and slightly yellowed, bared in a wide grin.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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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
One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 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
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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