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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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Its red-white-and-blue website shows the Statue of Liberty and a person wearing a cowboy hat striding with a partner through amber waves of grain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The amber alerts will be in place until Friday evening to cover high and even extreme temperatures expected through this week.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

It has put in place an amber health warning for four regions, including London, warning of increased risk to those over 65 years old or with pre-existing health conditions.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

The fire comes as the UK Health Security Agency has issued an amber heat-health alert for the east midlands, the east, south east and London.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

It was a wolf cub, gray and black, with eyes the color of dark amber.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

I won't say a word about mauves and faint ambers and umbras, but I do want to give that country a good word, as it looked that morning to me.

From The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower




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