amber
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Taking an alcohol marker, he tinted the lights a soft amber, allowing him to highlight the art in the room without adding harsh overhead lighting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is a wider amber warning stretching across the Midlands and East Anglia where temperatures are still likely to reach the low 30s.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Met Office red and amber extreme heat warnings remain in force with impacts such as transport disruption and heat-related illnesses set to continue.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
They sit in the dark, the small flat lit only by the dim amber light of the radio, and listen to the British voices pulsing across the crackling airwaves.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
It's the light, I guess, just the same as the audience holds hands when they turn on the ambers with a circular drop for a sunset or something.
From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox
Tabasheer seems to stand in the same relation to the mineral kingdom as do ambers and pearls.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
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