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[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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That may seem like a small change, but it’s a yellow flag for people who follow these things closely.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

According to the CHP, Maddalyn’s Acura was struck by a yellow Chevrolet Camaro and a black Dodge Charger that sped into the intersection.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

In Cali, in the southwest, Jorge Leon described the pain of "starting all over again" as he walked beside a yellow truck loaded with his belongings.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

Here, grated yellow summer squash and onion spend the better part of an hour over low heat, slowly becoming soft, sweet and jammy.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

There is a banner made of red, yellow, and blue wool that says, “Welcome Joey.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

To corners, to free-kicks and second yellows to name three.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

His father reasoned that these people were looking for "the blacks and the blues and the greens and the yellows", but why not offer more than that?

From BBC Feb. 9, 2026

Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

Not of the crowded corrals, but of the pretty West Side neighborhoods where wealthier Mexican families lived, their houses painted in yellows and oranges and pinks.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

If the sky looks blue, that could also make the sun look yellower.

From Scientific American Sep. 1, 2023

Light bulbs with warmer or yellower tones are more suited to our circadian rhythm than bluer light — that’s why the “night” mode on your smartphone uses them.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2022

It had red writing spelling out the brand name Velveeta, the cheese substance that, depending on your color sense, is either bold gold or yellower than school bus yellow.

From New York Times Feb. 9, 2022

In its crystalline form, sodium nitrite looks like a yellower cousin of table salt.

From Salon May 23, 2021

I stood quietly in the doorway in my black sheath and my black stole with the fringe, yellower than ever, but expecting less.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Mallory Ortberg: “Jeeves, bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.”

From Slate Feb. 22, 2017

Fishkill Farms has the best eggs with the yellowest yolks.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2016

A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian Nov. 29, 2012

Not even the yellowest journals suggested that Banker Morgan was selling his pictures because he needed the money.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when it fell into his hands, he would turn it into the yellowest of sensational journals, and hoot the memory of its present staff from ocean to ocean!

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

They simply weren’t my taste anymore, and I didn’t like how the resin had yellowed over time.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

The paper had yellowed from age and the cursive was so ornate the words were hard to make out.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

Fruit stored at 30°C yellowed rapidly, while mangoes kept at 12°C maintained their color longer because chlorophyll breakdown slowed significantly.

From Science Daily May 23, 2026

It was more like a stack of shelves stuffed full of pattern envelopes, some so old they’d yellowed along the edges.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2026

The artifacts — yellowing parchment with slight marks of stress at the edges and an intricately detailed stone tablet — are almost luminous under dim overhead lights at the exhibit.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.

From Barron's Feb. 4, 2026

It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.

From MarketWatch Jan. 28, 2026

The trees around the shore are doubled in the water, the leaves of the poplars are yellowing towards fall.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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