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[gray] / greɪ /


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Mark Zuckerberg was superglued into those Brunello Cucinelli gray T-shirts until he started wearing oversize Amiri tees in an effort to seem cooler.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

The huge gray shark that won’t leave a South Korea port city.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

I might even consider rooting for the long-hated 49ers, who also look pretty good in red and gray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The gray area between what can and can’t be insured and reimbursed is enormous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Her hair was gray, sticking out in strings from under her hood.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

In prediction markets, the rules are considerably grayer, as the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance detailed last month.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026

Just tell Claude: Make the gray background a little grayer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

His hair is grayer than when we last met more than a decade ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

Ms. Ortiz watched Mrs. Ángela, whose hair appeared grayer than in her debut video, her voice slightly raspier.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Mile after mile after mile after mile, and everything became grayer and more monotonous.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Presumably the same is true of the grayest day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

More than 1 in 5 people are over 65, a rate on par with some of the world’s grayest nations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

It makes a great coffee table book, one that can help inspire on even the grayest of days.

From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022

Itami is one of several localities that have turned to electronic tracking as Japan, the world’s grayest nation, confronts an epidemic of dementia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

All through the winter, too, its yellow twigs give it a sunny aspect, which is not without a cheering influence even in the grayest and gloomiest day.

From Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Recognizable by a subtle sparkly strip hidden inside a collar or on an aglet at the end of a drawstring cord, Cucinelli’s luxury clothing brand employs a muted palette of tans and grays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026

The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

“By the grays in my beard they’d probably know. They’d probably know I’m a lot older than they think,” James said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

The mountain was crisp with evergreens, which were luminous set against the browns and grays of shale and limestone.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

In the distance, somewhat grayed by atmospheric haze, are the smokestacks and cooling tower of the power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Despite aggressive debridement — daily surgical scrapings of her wounds to clean out the infection — and expensive medications, the tissues in her leg grayed at the edges.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

In one arresting work, attic wainscoting is a series of vertical black rectangles lined up one after the next against grayed ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

The fire department noted that the large amounts of logs and brush inside the landfill helped produce the prodigious plumes of smoke that further grayed out the sky well into Tuesday.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

His name, Jamison, was still three syllables, and his hair had not grayed.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Clad in prosthetics with a head full of graying hair, Cruise is far from his usual stunts-heavy, bravado-filled roles, which could make his typical audience less likely to come out to theaters, analysts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

They are graying and a bit world-weary now as they file into a courtroom in Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The first signs that a dog is crossing over into his senior years are often a graying muzzle, cloudier eyes or a slower gait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The alarm was immediate, with lawmakers and pundits invoking the specter of a graying, shrinking America unable to fund its elders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Great masses of curled brown leaves lay tangled in the dead grass, and the branches that thrust against the graying sky were almost bare.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare




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