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gem

[jem] / dʒɛm /


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A squat little gem painted gold, filled with vermouth jelly, surrounded by blueberry toast.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

The warm wooden accents of the home make the architectural gem feel intimately connected to the surrounding environmental beauty.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

“Colima is a true gem for being so small and so little-known. That’s its virtue,” says chef Nico Mejía, a local star.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

With that, he led a quintet through the music of “Members, Don’t Git Weary,” a 1968 gem within Roach’s catalog, interpreting its six tracks more along lines of harmonic and emotional content than song form.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

They rushed to hustle the gem back into the lead-lined box.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

With commercial tourism, social media and vlogging much of today’s world feels overexposed and overexplained, with seemingly every destination photographed, every experience reviewed and all hidden gems channeled into content.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

We’ve got so many great gems in the portfolio but there is so much noise around it with a lot of brands, and complexity gets in the way at times.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

De Beers is majority-owned by British mining giant Anglo American, which is seeking to offload its stake as the natural diamond market faces intense pressure from laboratory-grown gems.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

So Pelinka is going to have to go bargain hunting, he’s got to find some hidden gems, pull some tricks out of his sleeve.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2026

Their robes, each in a different bright color, were also decorated with gems.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

A search for “Barbie” on the company’s website returns rose-gold jewelry and pink gemmed rings.

From Reuters Jul. 23, 2023

Moreover, the first images of crosses portray them more as slender, gemmed staffs than as sturdy instruments of execution.

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2017

The passing rivers, the sounds rising from street gratings, the gemmed bridges were recognizable in name, but transposed to a different key.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2014

Depicted in his role as minister of justice, he wears an impressively gemmed and starchy crown, but the face below it looks miserable.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2010

Blue seas gemmed with verdant islands, rocky beaches from which sprang groves of lofty trees,—mountain ranges clothed with boskage and suggesting cool streams in their valleys—enticed us onward.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Its little yellow stars may now be seen gemming the woodsides, when all around is cold, comfortless, and dead.

From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore

When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night-dew gemming his mustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with I know not what vultures tearing his liver.

From International Short Stories English by Various

Bells of dew glittered upon the bushes rooted in the walls, and upon the ivy-grown pillars; and gemming the countless spiders' webs stretched from bough to bough, showed they were all unbroken.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Lady Frances observed it, and smiling said,— "You are gemming my ornaments, setting them in crystal instead of gold."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall

In the green stillness of the deep woods, birds singing and shy delicate blossoms gemming the moss, the fierce and savage past was like a dream.

From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey




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