bronze
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The 21-year-old will instead go home with only a bronze medal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The city of Philadelphia has permanently installed an 8½-foot bronze sculpture of Rocky Balboa outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
But now, I seriously doubted anyone was going to hand me a bronze statue for the way I yelled at my kids for not finishing their chicken nuggets.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Indonesia's Bunga Nyimas holds the record, having won bronze in women's skateboarding aged 12 in 2018.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Not a big, elaborate stage, just a concrete platform about the size of the wooden crates Cinder used to stand on in the store, a bronze plaque bolted to it that read, CINDER'S BLOCK.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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We encounter paintings on canvas and on copper; bronzes, terracottas and an impressive ivory; dispassionate portraits, intimate sketches and pitiless caricatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Overall, Manaudou won six Olympic medals across four appearances at the Games, with three silvers and two bronzes in addition to his gold.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
In a clever piece of installation design, shelves built around the screen bring the painting’s illusions to life, displaying real bronzes, porcelains, texts and scholarly objects from Lee’s collection—modern curation fulfilling classical cultural capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
"The expense is in the making of the bronzes, that's why it costs a lot to have them done. Money value in the metal it is nothing," he said.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
After that, nobody came or asked anything else about the bronzes for a while, and his brother built his well and life went on.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A red cartoon hunk of steak, a bronzed turkey, a few shrimp, a tub of unsweetened yogurt, an apple and a bag of frozen peas cascade alongside him.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
She has shared a before-and-after with her 59,000 followers: Her face, once splotchy with some acne scarring, is now clear, bronzed and glowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
It arrives in a thick, architectural slab, edges bronzed, interior plush but disciplined.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
Effective public health messaging – which has drilled "Slip, Slop, Slap" into their heads – competes with a beauty culture which often idolises bronzed skin.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Ser Addam dropped to one knee, a rangy man with dark copper hair that fell to his shoulders, armored in burnished bronzed steel with the fiery tree of his House etched black on his breastplate.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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“They’ve had a curated set of items that they’ve gone after, so whether that be in blushes or in lips or in highlighter or bronzing categories, they’re seeing strength across the board,” Fields said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not long ago, the “Mar-a-Lago face” seemed inescapable — a viral shorthand for an exaggerated cosmetic aesthetic marked by heavy bronzing, sharply sculpted cheeks, overly plumped lips and high-gloss polish.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
Bahder, whose expertise traditionally involves detecting lethal bronzing in palm trees, explained that the fundamental process of molecular testing is similar across different organisms, with the main difference being the DNA sequence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Hyposecretion of the corticosteroids can cause Addison’s disease, which may result in bronzing of the skin, hypoglycemia, and low electrolyte levels in the blood.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
He was lean and rapidly bronzing, for he seldom remembered a head covering because he loved the sweep of the wind in his hair.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
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