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metallic

[muh-tal-ik] / məˈtæl ɪk /


ADJECTIVE
suggestive of metal in sound
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An Equinox EV with $5,000 of options was available at no additional charge, as long as Norton took it home that day and accepted a color his wife didn’t love, “Riptide Metallic Blue.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The paper, "A Study on Welding of Porous Metals and Metallic Foams," is published in the journal Advanced Engineering Materials.

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2023

Metallic lavas, squeezed out billions of years ago, might shimmer nearby.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 13, 2023

Metallic ores are good conductors of electricity, the glove is an insulator that prevents the current travelling through the person's body to the ground.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2023

Metallic stars dotted the cities where they’d lived.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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