yellow
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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
Here, in yellow, we see eight of the 10 outfield players in a central position.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At 141 feet deep, it would be large enough to hold three yellow school buses stacked vertically.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Like magic, Caesar and his horse appear, moving against a backdrop of mountains and a sky radiating with yellow, orange, and red streaks.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
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
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
Ronan gets lucky, getting all of the yellows and greens pretty fast.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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Removing the bluer light from the sun should make it look a bit 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
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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This in itself was a good "story," but it was not until a second rumor reached Naylor's ears that his newspaper soul was stirred to its yellowest depths.
From The False Gods by George Horace Lorimer
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
The paper had yellowed from age and the cursive was so ornate the words were hard to make out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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
I nodded and looked at the smiling faces in the old, yellowed photos and the not-so-old photos that were set on the table.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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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
The fountain spurted a few inches into the air from a rough length of pipe, threw up its hands, collapsed and drowned its ragged dribble in a stone basin of yellowing water.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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