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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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Better yet: Ask anyone with silver hair or a print newspaper in their hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Third, and perhaps most importantly: there is no silvicultural silver bullet for managing forests.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

“The dark silver lining,” Gonzalez, the heat-weary fan said in a nod to global warming, “is this might be the coolest October of the rest of our lives.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

"There were 100,000 waiting for us in Prague celebrating. Even silver felt like winning the tournament for us."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was small enough to fit easily in her palm, an engraved thick silver lid over the glass, which clicked open to show a quivering needle.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Golds, silvers and bronzes won in Para-events will, unlike with other multi-sport events, count towards the overall medal total.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

After four holes, one of the other golfers who had been struggling joined me at the silvers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Russia topped the medal table with 13 golds, 13 silvers and seven bronzes, while Mexico and Mongolia competed at a Winter Paralympics for the first time.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

She came to Livigno, in the Italian Alps, seeking to sweep the board but has so far missed out on gold, winning two silvers, in slopestyle and big air.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

He weighed the sellswords with his yellow eyes, fticked his tongue across his yellow teeth, and said, “Five thousand silvers for the lot.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

A little silvered glass could be worth its weight in gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

At 50, still in the blush of youth by today’s silvered political standards, Porter has plenty of highway ahead of her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024

Ms Quinn said: "Daguerre developed a way of taking pictures using a polished silvered plate and a camera. This produced a single image printed directly onto a plate with astonishing clarity, named the daguerreotype."

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024

Seventeen years after the Tripod fire, the silvered trunks of dead trees still stand on many slopes.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Bonlie, a middle-aged man with silvering hair and a cheerful manner, listened attentively as she went through her long list of symptoms and her account of two decades of intermittent misery.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Screen Goo is highly pigmented and has a little silvering in the paint that reflects light back at lots of different angles.

From The Verge ● Feb. 24, 2020

A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Explain the functions of the various parts, such as the vacuum, the silvering of the walls, the thin-walled long glass neck, the rubber support, the air layer, and the stopper.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

They looked out over the pool with the afternoon sky silvering its surface.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer




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