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silver

adjective as in shiny gray in color

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Lost and found: $1 million in Spanish gold and silver coins near Florida coast.

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Current stars include American Cole Hocker and Britain’s Josh Kerr, who won gold and silver in the Paris Olympics 1,500 meters, or metric mile.

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With his full head of neatly combed silver hair, he could easily pass for the father of many of his peers, in a job where the average age is 20 years younger.

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Westinghouse built the silver, pear-shaped device in 1937 and it became known as the “world’s first industrial atom smasher.”

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Given the sheer scale of government debt, even small shifts in investors’ allocations from bond markets can have outsize price impacts on assets such as gold, silver or platinum.

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