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ivory

[ahy-vuh-ree, ahy-vree] / ˈaɪ və ri, ˈaɪ vri /


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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

It’s usually wrong to stand in your ivory tower shouting out the window that a broad swath of people in the market are mistaken.

From Barron's • May 15, 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

In Vogelherd Cave in Lone Valley, for example, archaeologists uncovered a small mammoth figurine carved from mammoth ivory.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

She pressed her face against the window, staring enthralled at the sprawl of ivory buildings.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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