mellow
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Up top are mellow selections made for sipping soda or soju.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
A muscular female soprano — Chi’cas Reid — dominates the vocal mix, with Ayers’ mellow baritone in a supporting role.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Over time, "you mellow, build networks and take what you can", often in the private sector.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
He returned to RCA with “Emergence,” a mellow record designed to follow King’s “Tapestry” onto the radio, but that airplay never materialized: Sedaka was still seen as a relic of the early ’60s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
His voice grew mellow and his eyes looked into the future.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
The inner fire and determination remain, but he is mellower, more mature these days.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
They were considerably mellower than the originals—we got a taste of what those might have been like from a brief preview set performed by the blues guitarist and singer Memphis Gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Somehow, they managed to produce a multiplatinum album with a mellower and more accessible sound, including the upbeat instrumental “Jessica,” which later won a Grammy Award.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
She’s the mellower, more successful envy of Williams’ character, and yet kind of a regular companion.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Quackenbush felt mellower by the end of the afternoon as we stood on the float in front of the Crew House, gathering up towels.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Often when I cook shrimp, they’re the sweetest, mellowest elements on the plate, sharpened by the likes of garlic and lemon.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
Your dad, Luis A Miranda, works in politics and has a documentary coming out about him… Although I famously have no chill, I always say I’m the mellowest member of my family.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2020
Even the mellowest teens are raging against the pandemic quarantine.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2020
Koenig, who carries himself like the mellowest dude at a black-tie event, doesn’t mind if a listener takes something real in his lyrics for something imagined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
I say, but the master-at-arms seems to be ignoring me now, so I direct the question to the skull with a rose in its mouth, figuring it might be the mellowest one.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
"Can y'all come straighten it up over here? It's not looking luxurious," Sean "Diddy" Combs says in a voice note to his personal assistants as R&B music mellows in the background.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
As the garden mellows and dies down, potted plants take center stage with their fresh foliage and seasonal shadings.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
A generous amount of ginger, cut into matchsticks, mellows and softens as it cooks, and adds a brightness that perks up the deeper flavors.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Like a fine accompaniment the brook's voice blends with all these, mellows and supplements them till in the woodland symphony there is no jarring note.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
Also stripping out energy prices, inflation mellowed to 2.6 percent from 2.9 percent, while headline unadjusted inflation was 1.5 percent, down from 2.1 percent.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
I mellowed it with a dollop of cold yogurt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But he’s since mellowed, even giving press episodes early to screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
Fifteen years later Mourinho may have mellowed slightly.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
The light mellowed as the afternoon deepened around me.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
“Dancing on the Ceiling” does the opposite, starting with very verbose Art Tatum-style arpeggios in the verse but then mellowing out in the chorus, and quoting “All This and Heaven Too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Their mellowing relationship is meant to mirror the growth of civil rights in the South.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
In Bourbon County, the local water is naturally filtered through mellowing limestone, which removes every trace of iron, the nemesis of good whiskey.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
Though Harley and Ivy’s honeymoon phase is already beginning to wane as Harley Quinn’s third season opens, the mellowing of their relationship’s something the series never really frames as a sign of danger.
From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2022
It was something about her lately, a mellowing, a softening from which this note had come.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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