jade

In July 1986, workers at a brick factory in southwestern China were digging for clay when they hit upon something unexpected: dozens of dazzling pieces of jade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Zhao, a woman sporting an intricately carved gold medallion on a necklace of jade beads and shimmering bangles on her wrist, brought her late grandfather's ring to the recycling machine.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

They used elaborate red, green, and cream wallpaper throughout, and other staged rooms were painted jade and burgundy.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

Per the brand’s website, Lung Ching is “famous for its jade green color, earthy aroma, mellow taste and long flat leaf” along with its “distinct character” and “unique cooling effect.”

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

In Kingston, Suzanne had taken me to powdery white beaches where we dodged waves in water that looked like jade.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

A steady stream of freshly published books crosses my desk in which the authors insist that the American workplace jades employees and managers alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Most of the grounds were covered with refuse and thickets of common SoCal landscaping plants — jades, ivy, vinca and morning glory — and he’s been reshaping the garden ever since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022

He chose among the finest bronzes, jades, calligraphy and pottery from the vast Afghan antique collection he had amassed in Austria over the decades, which arrived at the fair earlier this week..

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

Qing porcelain with square seal-style marks and imperial jades, both of which suit current tastes, are sure to go on rising in the New York Asian Week this month and later in Hong Kong.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2011

By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Our titular heroine is only 13 years old when her escapade begins – a little more mature than most of the director’s protagonists, but still innocent enough not to be jaded.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

To become jaded is an occupational hazard when you’ve reviewed 2,000 movies, but I was genuinely excited to see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

One of the best things about working with young people, I’ve found, is that they aren’t jaded.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

“A jaded cynicism has come over investors,” said Paul Donovan, chief global economist at UBS Wealth Management.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

If you’re a hiker whose appetite is jaded by farm-grown foods, it’s fun to try eating wild foods.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

It is very difficult now, after all that has crowded in upon us, jading the sensitive recipient surface of memory, to reconstitute the frame of mind in which we passed those days.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

To adapt a Baconian phrase, the weather is the one subject that you cannot dull by jading it too far.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

No worldly samples Of honors jading Shall wreath your temples With laurels fading; But bright, eternal, shall thee entrance The blessed holies' inheritance.

From The Angel of Death by Almqvist, August W.