ivory
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The head is brown to black and has several ivory to yellowish spots, which helps separate it from its native counterpart, the smoke-tree sharpshooter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Despite their evolutionary distance, the team discovered that both butterflies and moths repeatedly relied on the same two genes, ivory and optix, to produce nearly identical warning colors.
From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026
Some of those eagerly sought to enlighten their charges, while a few others grew to see – or claimed to see – an unbridgeable chasm between the ivory tower and mass cultural aspiration.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Attendees took videos of him swaying beside the night’s honoree, a 15-year-old girl in a crown and glittering ivory ball gown celebrating her quinceañera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
She pressed her face against the window, staring enthralled at the sprawl of ivory buildings.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Why are so many of your fabrics tans, ivories or “goat-colored”?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
This is not a concert in which the lead singer will occasionally tinkle the ivories for effect.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2025
Established in 1957 – three years before independence - the museum houses objects from across the country, including Ife bronze and terracotta heads, Benin brass plaques and ivories, and Ibibio masks and costumes.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
She started moving her fingers around the ivories just to get a feel for the instrument, and her wife ran in saying, “Press record!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
They played music: Elizebeth on the ivories, William on the violin.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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