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yellow

[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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On the tarmac close by were several Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes, stripes along their enormous bodies in the blue and yellow of the country's flag.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

With his head shaved and wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit, Farinacci appeared in court where his bail was raised from $1 million to $2 million.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Until very recently, prices for the yellow metal had mostly been declining from a dramatic peak reached early in the first quarter.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

“The heat doesn’t bother me much,” he said, unloading his bicycle — a blue and yellow 1989 Trek 400 — from the trunk of his car on a side street in Reseda.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

But if there were any feelings of ill will, they melted away when Duane handed him the present, complete with the yellow ribbon bow.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

On the wall behind the couch where clients sit, I hung a tapestry that features a sun rising over an abstract landscape of pinks and yellows.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

According to Uefa rules, any player sent off by the referee - whether that is via two yellows or a straight red - is automatically suspended for the next match in European club competition.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

On that quintessentially sunny January day, Toliver wore an equally blinding, all-white outfit in contrast to the bright yellows of the racer.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2026

My white T-shirt glowed in the twilight, banded in modern art speckles of fungal reds, yellows, and blues.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

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

At such times the stores wake up and put out their smartest calicoes and their yellowest saddles with which to tempt the wary Boer and Boeress.

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise

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

After expending so much blood, sweat and tears to reach the majors, their reward was a single yellowed newspaper box score with their name in it.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2025

In the cluttered study the old mouse produced a yellowed volume.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The artifacts — yellowing parchment with slight marks of stress at the edges and an intricately detailed stone tablet — are almost luminous under dim overhead lights at the exhibit.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 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

He’d already plunged into the yellowing, crisping plants, dying plants, he’d already stumbled forward several dozen yards, when he began to feel stupid again, wrong again, worried again.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby




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