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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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The day after Schlittler’s stellar performance, Max Fried followed it up with a gem of his own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

When you find one that is gracious enough to host you, it can feel like discovering a rare gem in a mine of homebodies and those siloed to their own friend groups or families.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

At least now I knew that I was not alone in my overwhelming passion for this strange little gem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

From a lifeless strip of grass to a blossoming garden, Annadale Community Centre's grounds have received a glow up over the past year, becoming a "hidden gem" for all to enjoy.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

They rushed to hustle the gem back into the lead-lined box.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Some are complete B.S. and some get repeated over and over, but you can find some gems you might not have considered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

She transforms a rainbow of blossoms into hair adornments, earrings, necklace pendants and rings, treating her homegrown organic materials like precious gems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

As I walk into the heart of the 60th Notting Hill Carnival, the sun is shining and bouncing off the sequins, gems and sparkles of the costumes and decorations surrounding me.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

But I don't leave because he has eyes like gems that make me want to stay, even when he says the wrong thing.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

The gemmed hand was gently raised here; then dropped with resignation upon the maroon silk lap.

From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson

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

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

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

In the green stillness of the deep woods, birds singing and shy delicate blossoms gemming the moss, the fierce and savage past was like a dream.

From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey

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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