silver
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But in the case of “It Ends,” the unconventional path to the silver screen is especially impressive.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
The world track silver medallist in the 10,000m also holds the world record for a men's 10,000m road race.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
“It’s not the silver bullet Raman’s selling,” Stack said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Gold and silver inlay work and green agate stones complete the garment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The color palette is silver and rose gold.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Those stunning silvers followed the toughest period of his life, but he put three years of "absolute hell" behind him to win world bronze in 2022 as he re-established himself among the world's best.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Russia topped the medal table with 13 golds, 13 silvers and seven bronzes, while Mexico and Mongolia competed at a Winter Paralympics for the first time.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
She’d racked up three silvers and two bronzes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
She was asked by reporters whether she assessed her two completed competitions as two silvers won or two golds lost.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Dale replied he’d had just about enough of setting by the shipping lane in soup fog for a dozen silvers, a few dogfish, a couple of hake, and what’s more taking flack off his radio.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
A little silvered glass could be worth its weight in gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
At 50, still in the blush of youth by today’s silvered political standards, Porter has plenty of highway ahead of her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
Ms Quinn said: "Daguerre developed a way of taking pictures using a polished silvered plate and a camera. This produced a single image printed directly onto a plate with astonishing clarity, named the daguerreotype."
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
Seventeen years after the Tripod fire, the silvered trunks of dead trees still stand on many slopes.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
In Treegap, the same moonlight silvered the roof of the touch-me-not cottage, but inside, the lamps were burning.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
Screen Goo is highly pigmented and has a little silvering in the paint that reflects light back at lots of different angles.
From The Verge ● Feb. 24, 2020
A thickset Catholic businessman with silvering hair and bloodshot eyes, he was wearing a loose denim shirt.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
A typical example: “The moon is a sickled leopard’s tooth pinned to obsidian, its light silvering the violent undulations scoring the skin of your unforgiving water.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2016
Explain the functions of the various parts, such as the vacuum, the silvering of the walls, the thin-walled long glass neck, the rubber support, the air layer, and the stopper.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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