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jewel

[joo-uhl] / ˈdʒu əl /




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The period saw a huge cash injection into theme parks, which remain a jewel in the company's crown, helping to push up the share price fivefold.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Since moving back to L.A. in 2014, Wang has vended at local farmers markets, hosted Chinese cooking demos at public libraries and helped staff Filipino restaurant Lasita, a crown jewel of Chinatown’s Far East Plaza.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Hess’s crown jewel asset was its 30% stake in an Exxon-led consortium in Guyana, a generational oil discovery.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

“Remake” is McElwee’s first film in 15 years, appearing like a jewel out of a mountain of life’s rubble.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

Grandpa made a little speech over that piece of cushion, holding it in front of him as if it were some priceless jewel.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

If Mark Walter is selling one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles sports, is he about to sell the other?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

That Yale is willing to risk these jewels in her crown speaks volumes about the terrible power of the proposed OMB regulation.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

But the gallery, which once housed France's crown jewels, reopened without any on display.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The Apollo Gallery of Paris's Louvre Museum, where French crown jewels worth 88 million euros were stolen in 2025 in a brazen heist, will reopen to the public on Wednesday.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

“Their tails have jewels in them. Most of them live on the outskirts of New Atlantis.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Paul Kutchinsky set out to create a supersize jeweled egg.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

Buddz went for a grouping of jeweled brooches.

From Seattle Times Feb. 4, 2024

Iranian-style jewelry studded with jade and other precious stones were popular during the Ottoman period, and Joyce may have applied his newfound skills to crafting rings, earrings, necklaces, and intricate jeweled turban aigrettes.

From National Geographic Jan. 11, 2024

Many are being offered for a few thousand dollars, including everything from the portraits by Lange to jeweled rings to Versace dinnerware.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2024

As was the custom, all their treasures had been buried with them—gold and silver, swords and jeweled cups.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

And at night, when the ticky-tacky disappears and the jeweling lights go on, the happy, hoppy daydream becomes a garden of visual delight.

From Time Magazine Archive

She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skin and jeweling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

We would not advise jeweling the pivot holes, because there is but slight friction, except to the foot of the balance pivot, which should be jeweled with a plano-convex garnet.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

For a half hour the torrents fell--then the sun burst forth, jeweling the forest with a million scintillant gems; but today the ape-man, usually alert to the changing wonders of the jungle, saw them not.

From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Evidently the blossoms had just been gathered, for the raindrops of the previous night still sparkled among their petals, jeweling with brilliancy their kaleidoscopic riot of color.

From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett

In a vast, dimly lit main hall spanning four levels, visitors gazed at chariots, household items, jewelled ornaments and, at the centre, Tutankhamun's iconic golden mask.

From Barron's Nov. 4, 2025

Both men remain in Macau prison, a far cry from the jewelled opulence of the VIP parlours they once presided over.

From Reuters Sep. 19, 2022

She's become famous for her brightly coloured dresses and coats paired with a matching hat, accessorised with her signature square handbag, a string of pearls and a jewelled brooch.

From BBC May 31, 2022

An unnamed Egyptian boy models a heavy, jewelled necklace from a casket within the tomb of Tutankhamun, bringing together ancient and modern Egypt.

From BBC May 10, 2022

Eurydamas’s men came back with pendants, ear-drops in triple clusters of warm lights; and from the hoard of Lord Polyktor’s son, Peisandros, came a band for her white throat, jewelled adornment.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

She paused a moment, looking up at the wooded hill-top, which the sun was jewelling in silver.

From Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

So we stroll and look at the shops, at the filigree gold jewelling of the peasants, at a good bookshop.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The ice glistened on the naked trees, encasing and jewelling them.

From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Her light had not yet reached the harbor, the further side of which was shadowy and suggestive, with dim coves and rich glooms and jewelling lights.

From Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Their powder is the best for the lapidary, and they are used for jewelling watches, and in the cutting of window- and plate-glass.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various




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