metallic

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However, the researchers found a way to stabilize polarization within a metallic system and use it to influence electronic behavior.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

Albariño wine pairs well with cheeses, fish tacos, herbaceous salads—and, as Hemingway did, you can also drink it to wash away the faint metallic taste of oysters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

“There is a chemical, metallic taste to it that makes one think it was created in some renegade CIA lab.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Suggesting emergence rather than collapse, a winged metal woman rises from a hospital bed, bathed in multicolored light projected across the walls, while translucent metallic fragments dangle overhead.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

It made a sort of metallic sound, as though her throat was full of drawing-pins.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl