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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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If those gem names sound like every other airline’s tiers, you’re right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Boasting breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean, this gem is located on a triangular 0.4-acre oceanfront lot.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

As Dodgers starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan turned in a two-hit gem over the course of six scoreless innings, De Paula carried the offense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

"The last couple of weeks in training, he has been amazing. I think we have got a gem there, to be honest."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Once he saw the gem inside, his promise to deliver the box to the general’s house by midnight was forgotten.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Johnson’s public comments are usually motivational gems such as “When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

These gems are surrounded by a wealth of period garments, accessories, artworks, posters, sketches, photographs and clips from over 50 silent movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

During the episode, bakers made American-style cookies, recreated iced gems and created a "visually striking" biscuit mosaic.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

She also noted that as the diamond sector softens, shoppers have become more interested in colored gems.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The place settings and goblets were made of gold and were studded with precious gems.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

A search for “Barbie” on the company’s website returns rose-gold jewelry and pink gemmed rings.

From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2023

Moreover, the first images of crosses portray them more as slender, gemmed staffs than as sturdy instruments of execution.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2017

The passing rivers, the sounds rising from street gratings, the gemmed bridges were recognizable in name, but transposed to a different key.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2014

Depicted in his role as minister of justice, he wears an impressively gemmed and starchy crown, but the face below it looks miserable.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2010

She loved the grand old forest-trees which waved in groups upon the lawn, and every tiny blossom that gemmed the turf at their roots.

From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Bells of dew glittered upon the bushes rooted in the walls, and upon the ivy-grown pillars; and gemming the countless spiders' webs stretched from bough to bough, showed they were all unbroken.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night-dew gemming his mustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with I know not what vultures tearing his liver.

From International Short Stories English by Various

And so all the magnificence and beauty of the daily heavens, and the nightly gemming of the empty places with perpetually burning stars, are lost to them!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

Like some palpable, suffocating substance it filled the plain and mounted far up into the air, even to the blue-black sky, whence a million gemming stars pierced it with their diamond lances.

From With Hoops of Steel by Dan Smith

Lady Frances observed it, and smiling said,— "You are gemming my ornaments, setting them in crystal instead of gold."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall


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