jade
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Sailing west across the Pacific for three months, the ships brought silver coins from Spain's American colonies to Manila, where they would be exchanged for luxury goods like silk, porcelain and jade from China.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
What the author gets at in every example, from Kokopelli petroglyphs to fragile jade flutes and the lush sets and experimental sounds of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a common longing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
They used elaborate red, green, and cream wallpaper throughout, and other staged rooms were painted jade and burgundy.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
These days, “practicing gratitude” seems to come bundled with jade rollers, superfoods and the kind of journals that include prompts like “What’s your vibration today?”
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024
A monster of a man he had been, huge and shaven-headed, with rings of gold and jet and jade around arms thick with muscle, and a great hawk tattooed across his chest.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
One of the best things about working with young people, I’ve found, is that they aren’t jaded.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
It’s the jaded who succumb to violence and hopelessness, dragging everyone down with them.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
“A jaded cynicism has come over investors,” said Paul Donovan, chief global economist at UBS Wealth Management.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Whatever the result, this was a poor performance by Arsenal, who looked jaded compared to a fresh Bournemouth side who had not played for three weeks.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
For a moment it felt as if her bones had spontaneously reshattered, but the feeling passed and settled into jaded resolve.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
To adapt a Baconian phrase, the weather is the one subject that you cannot dull by jading it too far.
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
It is very difficult now, after all that has crowded in upon us, jading the sensitive recipient surface of memory, to reconstitute the frame of mind in which we passed those days.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
No worldly samples Of honors jading Shall wreath your temples With laurels fading; But bright, eternal, shall thee entrance The blessed holies' inheritance.
From The Angel of Death by Almqvist, August W.
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