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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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The blue-lit monotony of every day is replaced by warm amber table lamps and dimly lit corners flanked by books on all sides.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

In the UK, storms are named when they are likely to cause disruption or damage that could lead to an amber or red warning being issued.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Its red-white-and-blue website shows the Statue of Liberty and a person wearing a cowboy hat striding with a partner through amber waves of grain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It will run alongside amber heat health alerts issued by the UK Health Security Agency across the entirety of England.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

He sits next to me sometimes in music theory, and when the sun hits his face, I can see flecks of amber in them.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

I would swim early in the morning when the water was still or late at night as the sun set, casting stunning ambers and pinks streaks through the sky.

From BBC Mar. 9, 2025

The sunrise ambers and midnight blues of Joshua Cutts’s lighting design illuminate Michael’s states of mind as much as they do time and place.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2023

The set design by Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino emphasizes depth of field, its white framework a receptive canvas for Linda Cho’s refined midcentury costumes and the warm ambers of David Weiner’s lighting.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2023

They have always seemed to contain this suggestion for me: flowers that seemed to be much more the embodiment of jades, rubies, emeralds, and ambers, than just flowers from the common garden.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

With seven, ambers and misty wraps are charged in pastel tones celebrating the arrival of eight.

From The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Brown




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