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Burton is reputed to have paid $1.1m for the diamond in 1969.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Most ski slopes are coded for difficulty—with the green circle as the easy, the blue square as intermediate and the black diamond as advanced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

To test their approach, the researchers first examined a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, a type of crystal defect widely studied for quantum applications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

What begins as an honest account of modern life’s bleak state is distorted alongside Berlant’s malleable expressions, slowly blossoming into something life-affirming, like a diamond among the rubble.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

The book creeps into my dreams and chases me around and around a softball diamond inside a field of lava.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

Naturally occurring pink diamonds are exceptionally rare and often sell for tens of millions of dollars.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Napoleon gifted the iconic necklace, featuring 32 Colombian emeralds and 1,138 diamonds, along with its matching emerald earrings, to Marie-Louise for their wedding in 1810.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Consider the Van Cleef bib necklace, a dazzling Art Deco piece fashioned with 673 diamonds set in platinum that was commissioned in 1938 by Queen Nazli of Egypt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, the price of lab-grown diamonds — or diamonds made by emulating the earth’s natural heat and pressure conditions — has fallen, as technological advances and production expansion lead to oversupply.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The coral had grown over it and it was covered with barnacles, but huge gems—rubies the size of my head and diamonds even bigger—glowed within the darkness.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda