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These letters haven’t been issued since the Civil War, but the parallel is obvious and creates shades of gray that could present major problems.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

He noted the peninsula had once been home to animals such as pronghorn, sea otter, North American porcupine, Humboldt marten, gray wolf, American black bear, grizzlies, northern fur seal and Steller sea lion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

There, I met Dan, an affable middle-aged fellow with gray tufts of hair, who was bustling around with a vacuum.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

The seven-sided abode features an interior court, private balconies, a catering-style kitchen with light gray cabinets and a dining nook, and a living room accompanied by glass walls and light-wood floors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

I picked up my plate, stared at the watery gray porridge, and handed it silently to her.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

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

Her hair was loose and damp, grayer than it had been three months earlier.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

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

Itami is one of several localities that have turned to electronic tracking as Japan, the world’s grayest nation, confronts an epidemic of dementia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

And I dare say even now in England one of their descendants may be found with a black ring around his neck, the handsomest, grayest, plumpest goose in all the world.

From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Fanny Y. Cory

The biggest problem involved the neutral axis, the line of grays that runs from black to white.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026

As we follow the cat on her solitary journey through a wind-tossed landscape of muted grays and blues, the question of what a small cat needs takes on a more philosophical bent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

The broker had staged the house with attractive furniture in taupes and grays.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

Bulbs are defiant harbingers of spring in colder climes, sometimes pushing up through the snow in their zeal to greet the sun and spread a little color on a bleak landscape of slushy grays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

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

A bolt of white heat hit her and she grayed, then dissipated into the air.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

Now the baby boomers and the silent generation are going back to school, as Goucher stakes its financial future on the graying of America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

It was hard to tell who was happier: the current team or those graying alums, proud to at last have company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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 boards that he had crafted so carefully were neatly stacked, but his tools were scattered about, and it looked from the graying clouds as if rain was on the way.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry