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garnet

[gahr-nit] / ˈgɑr nɪt /


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The alternative, Red Ambience, drenches the car in a fathomless shade of garnet metallic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

The discoveries included a silver, gold and garnet bird's-head terminal with elephant ivory inlays, possibly from a drinking-horn, several gold rings, and other metal objects.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

“When you’re pulling for the garnet and gold, it sure helps when the garnet and gold is playing good clean baseball, and that’s what they’ve been able to watch,” Jarrett said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

Otherwise he’d be running the sideline in Texas Christian purple, Auburn burnt orange and navy blue or the lovely garnet of Florida State.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

This well-wisher also included a red garnet stone that Lucretia could set in a piece of jewelry.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Piller juxtaposes opals, garnets and pearls with less conventional materials such as tile fragments, snakeskin, bits of lava from a trip to Iceland, and bullet casings, all bound together with strips of leather or vinyl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

The piece of whiteschist from the Dora Maira Massif contained pink garnets in a silvery-white matrix composed of quartz and other minerals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

The state also boasts a large production of star garnets, the state gem — “so large that most of them are crushed up and made into sandpaper,” Mr. Braunwart said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

The solid gold object is encrusted with garnets and intricate goldwork which feature religious motifs and fantastical creatures.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2022

By the early twenties, the mine still had not produced much, if anything, in the way of gold, or rubies, or even garnets for that matter.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown


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