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amber

[am-ber] / ˈæm bər /
ADJECTIVE
gold-colored
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NOUN
goldish color
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Two of those specimens turned out to contain fossilized animals that were nearly impossible to see with the naked eye because the amber pieces were never polished.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

By Goethe's time, scientists had already begun studying amber and the fossils preserved inside it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Our politics are trapped in amber, our culture is frozen in ice.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

You can be blue or tangerine, red or black, claret and amber - everybody has some sort of skin in the game, some reason to be gripped.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

They sit in the dark, the small flat lit only by the dim amber light of the radio, and listen to the British voices pulsing across the crackling airwaves.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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