gray
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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
The huge gray shark that won’t leave a South Korea port city.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“It’s not as strong of a signal as the gray list,” Morse added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
I might even consider rooting for the long-hated 49ers, who also look pretty good in red and gray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Karli was gray in the face, and quite lifeless.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
But gravity-defying themes such as semiconductors in recent weeks have lured older, grayer investors as well as Wall Street pros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
Ms. Ortiz watched Mrs. Ángela, whose hair appeared grayer than in her debut video, her voice slightly raspier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Tom Weylin, grayer, thinner, grimmer-looking than ever, came over to me.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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 makes a great coffee table book, one that can help inspire on even the grayest of days.
From The Verge ● Apr. 28, 2022
Even during the grayest of winter months, there is plenty of green, and pops of color and beauty around the region in arboretums and botanical gardens.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
Ashes denote that fire was; Respect the grayest pile For the departed creature's sake That hovered there awhile.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
Recognizable by a subtle sparkly strip hidden inside a collar or on an aglet at the end of a drawstring cord, Cucinelli’s luxury clothing brand employs a muted palette of tans and grays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
She occasionally paints in acrylic directly onto acoustic panels, sometimes in muted grays and whites that very nearly appear to blend into the wall.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
White was fading away to expose the grays and browns that had been hidden beneath.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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
“Literally nothing?” the CNN anchor said in disbelief during the live broadcast when the Magic Wall showed a grayed out map.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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
His name, Jamison, was still three syllables, and his hair had not grayed.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
Their graying jowls appear to be melting alongside the polar ice caps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
They are graying and a bit world-weary now as they file into a courtroom in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
But the graying population frequently demands more care than doctors can provide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
More recent new construction hasn’t replaced America’s graying housing stock, meaning the age of the median home is a record 44 years, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
He looks just like the photos of him on the Web—older white man with graying hair and bright black eyes.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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