gray
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That’s often where the messaging lies in this gray area: pay a few hundred dollars for this wellness gadget to catch things before they turn into five-figure hospital bills.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg was superglued into those Brunello Cucinelli gray T-shirts until he started wearing oversize Amiri tees in an effort to seem cooler.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Martínez Celaya added that he is particularly intrigued with the gray zone where “childhood ceases to be, and adulthood hasn’t come yet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The huge gray shark that won’t leave a South Korea port city.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
At last the huge gate swung in and a convoy of gray transport buses drove through.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
In prediction markets, the rules are considerably grayer, as the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance detailed last month.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026
Just tell Claude: Make the gray background a little grayer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
His hair is grayer than when we last met more than a decade ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Marcus Mariota’s hair is grayer now than when he entered the NFL as a highly touted prospect and a potential face of a franchise.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
The product of their efforts this time looked only slightly grayer than it had the time before.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
Presumably the same is true of the grayest day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
More than 1 in 5 people are over 65, a rate on par with some of the world’s grayest nations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
It was a radical solution for a problem that has become increasingly common in Japan, the world’s grayest society.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
It makes a great coffee table book, one that can help inspire on even the grayest of days.
From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022
For the storm has died away; the wind is gone to sleep; the rain has sobbed itself to death; and now a lovely moon is rising slowly—slowly—from behind a rippled mass of grayest cloud.
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
A lighted SyberJet logo hung above the bar, and ornate chandeliers cast the wood-paneled room, designed in elegant grays, in a soft glow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
Grace’s world may be awash in browns and grays and beiges, yet Elliot somehow makes that color palette feel vibrant and alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
In the distance, somewhat grayed by atmospheric haze, are the smokestacks and cooling tower of the power plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Despite aggressive debridement — daily surgical scrapings of her wounds to clean out the infection — and expensive medications, the tissues in her leg grayed at the edges.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The fire department noted that the large amounts of logs and brush inside the landfill helped produce the prodigious plumes of smoke that further grayed out the sky well into Tuesday.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Nury Martinez I realized he went grayed out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
He led the way down the winding street to a humble stone house, the grayed wooden door cracked and warped.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
The federal government reported America’s total fertility rate dropped to 1.57, sparking alarm about a graying, shrinking population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The alarm was immediate, with lawmakers and pundits invoking the specter of a graying, shrinking America unable to fund its elders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Behind him, a mature Joshua tree was dying, its graying limbs drooping sadly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeff Schmid has found a silver lining in America’s graying demographics: All of those extra visits to the doctor are good for the economy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
The graying Amity man opens a door on the left.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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