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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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Preschoolers run across the grass, their play area divided by a silver chain-link fence from the rest of the campus.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

The mint also uses recycled silver, some of it extracted from old radios supplied by British hospitals.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Gold settled 0.4% lower, down for a second-consecutive session, while silver rose 0.1%, up three of the past four sessions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Finucane won Wales' 31st medal of the Games with nine gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

It wove about the trunks of the trees, gleaming silver in the moonlight.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Golds, silvers and bronzes won in Para-events will, unlike with other multi-sport events, count towards the overall medal total.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

After four holes, one of the other golfers who had been struggling joined me at the silvers.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Following her second-placed finish in the big air event on Monday, AFP asked her in a press conference whether she considered it "two silvers gained or two golds lost".

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

Knight, who powered the United States into Monday’s Olympic semifinal, is one of the most accomplished female hockey players in the world: an Olympic gold medal, three Olympic silvers and 10 world championship medals.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2026

The silvers were running in immense schools, they said, mostly on the flood tide.

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

The Giantslayer and his mount were armored in silvered steel inlaid with niello.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Bonlie, a middle-aged man with silvering hair and a cheerful manner, listened attentively as she went through her long list of symptoms and her account of two decades of intermittent misery.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2022

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

This will make the inside surface of the clear plastic a perfect mirror for such rays without any need for the silvering used on common mirrors.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

As soon as the silvering began, long before the cider cracked the jugs, there was something wrong.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison




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