yellow
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A reckless challenge is a yellow card, but the VAR is unable to intervene and advise that Bogle should be booked.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The road leading to Najib's upmarket residence was cordoned off with yellow police tape and traffic cones blocking access to the area, an AFP journalist saw at around noon.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Two weeks earlier, the Patriot team rode in a yellow school bus without air conditioning on a 100-degree day to an away game at Ramona.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
The company—known for its giant yellow dump trucks, bulldozers and other equipment—posted a third-quarter profit of $3.29 billion, or $7.13 a share, compared with $2.3 billion, or $4.88 a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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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You may find soft pink, mauve and lilac relaxing, or you may find yellows and reds more vibrant and lift your mood.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
Russell insisted he had slowed sufficiently for the Verstappen incident, and said there was just a single yellow flag showing, rather than the double waved yellows which might have been expected for such a situation.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The yellows are like the palo verde trees that bloom brightly in the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
He continued north, looking to the yellows and the orange of the sandrock cliffs ahead, and to the narrow sandrock canyons that cut deep into the mesa, exposing the springs.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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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
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
They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These are: alizarine itself, which produces a bluish shade of red; anthra-purpurine, which gives a similar but less blue red than alizarine; and flavo-purpurine, which produces the yellowest reds.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech
The earliest pages in Lee Him’s file, yellowed with age and ragged at the edges, date to 1908.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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
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
As my feet sunk into the mud and sad, yellowed grass, I had my first good look around.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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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
Every May brings Atomic Bomb Awareness Month to Camillo Junior High, right after the greening grass and the yellowing forsythia.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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