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aquamarine

[ak-wuh-muh-reen, ah-kwuh-] / ˌæk wə məˈrin, ˌɑ kwə- /




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Last year, more than 1.8 million trucks rumbled across the aging aquamarine span, which opened in 1929 and is one of the continent’s busiest land-border crossings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Now, those taxpayer millions are peeling off and floating away in ragged, aquamarine chunks.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2026

The area, known for a famous gorge and aquamarine waters, sits on several active faults.

From New York Times Apr. 3, 2024

And that is not even her breeding plumage, when her eyes turn aquamarine, with matching stipples around the edges, and the inside of her mouth turns cobalt blue.

From Seattle Times Jan. 21, 2024

Mrs. Levy' had looked some-thing like a prankster with her golden-white hair, her sunglasses with the blue lenses, the aquamarine mascara that made a ring around the blue lenses like a halo.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Once again taking coastal Florida as a setting, the director makes the most of his glow-stick palette, filled with fiery yellows and aquamarines.

From New York Times May 9, 2024

The crown glitters with stones including tourmalines, white and yellow topazes, rubies, amethysts, sapphires, garnet, peridot, zircons, spinel and aquamarines.

From Seattle Times May 5, 2023

Beneath them lay a platinum armature to which were affixed 400 additional carats of stones — turquoise cabochon, faceted diamonds, aquamarines all contrived to imitate the effect of sunlight refracted through water.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2015

And when it comes to color, Picasso, so given to dull greens and nougat browns, is no match for Matisse's vermilions and aquamarines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath by grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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