yellow
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OpenAI showcased the cast of pink, blue, green, yellow and purple characters with names including Iggy, Felipe, Jojo, Todd and Alfred, at an event in San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
His Livestrong Foundation was wildly successful, selling millions of yellow wristbands to raise money to support fellow cancer sufferers.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
I showed up not long after doors opened and was greeted by two lengthy lines of well-dressed people crowding the block, tittering with expectation, interacting with myriad Ramp employees identifiable by those yellow lanyards.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Color was then added as an artistic interpretation, with blue used for the morning view and yellow for the afternoon.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The door also opened once a day to let in the trustee from Medical Supply with a dose of some stinging yellow liquid from a very dirty bottle.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
An FIA spokesperson said that a single yellow was shown initially, before it was upgraded to a double yellows, by which time Antonelli and Russell had gone through.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
To corners, to free-kicks and second yellows to name three.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Visitors can expect yellows and splashes of orange, with more flowers sprouting every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
And because of her hair—I use up all my yellows drawing it.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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As well as this, "he was just getting yellower and yellower", she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
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
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
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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
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She was the best dowered maiden for fifty miles round, and though young in her teens, made the yellowest butter and firmest cheese for three villages round.
From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Frances Freeling Broderip
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
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
He takes out a faded notepad with loose leaves of paper that have yellowed with age.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
His long and yellowed claws scrabbled at the metal.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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Van der poel, Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Paul Seixas and Pidcock were all there, all animating and pushing to breakaway from one another under gradually yellowing Canadian maples.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
On the yellowing front page, 20 or so young Greenlanders smile, feet planted in the snow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
The corn, which had been so green and strong, was now striped with yellowing leaves.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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