silver lining
Example Sentences
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One silver lining is stifled cyclones in the North Atlantic as warm air rising off the Pacific generates high-altitude winds that blow east toward the tropical Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Pakistan may have found a star in the making, a silver lining to a terrible tour.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
There’s a silver lining to rising interest rates and soaring borrowing costs: Corporate pension funds have finally rebounded after years of deep deficits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
If there is a silver lining, the participation rate of workers in their prime — ages 25 to 54 — was much higher in July and not far from an all-time high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
If there was a silver lining, it was that the earthquake brought new funding and world attention to a country that had suffered in obscurity through too many natural, political, and health disasters.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
