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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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Researchers are also studying fossilized amber, dinosaur scales and bones from other dinosaurs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Researchers used the instrument to produce high-resolution images of smaller bones, amber and fossilized scales.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The blue-lit monotony of every day is replaced by warm amber table lamps and dimly lit corners flanked by books on all sides.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

The Met Office issued a red extreme heat warning at the end of June, while the UK Health Security Agency has issued multiple amber warnings over the last few months.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

I am stuck between the day and night in a golden amber bronze.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

I would swim early in the morning when the water was still or late at night as the sun set, casting stunning ambers and pinks streaks through the sky.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025

The sunrise ambers and midnight blues of Joshua Cutts’s lighting design illuminate Michael’s states of mind as much as they do time and place.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The set design by Clint Ramos and Miguel Urbino emphasizes depth of field, its white framework a receptive canvas for Linda Cho’s refined midcentury costumes and the warm ambers of David Weiner’s lighting.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

Brown hair, warm brown skin, brown eyes, may wear browns, yellows, ambers, cream-white, rich blues, tans, fawns, all reds, olive-green and maroon; flame-color, and rose pink in small quantities.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke

Tabasheer seems to stand in the same relation to the mineral kingdom as do ambers and pearls.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various




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