silver lining
Example Sentences
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But Morrissey sees a silver lining: pensions auto-enrollment, the system that automatically puts most employees into a workplace pension unless they opt out.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
But then there’s baseball, and one possible silver lining.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The silver lining is that there’s a limit to how volatile the index can get.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
A slight improvement in services sentiment provided a silver lining, as well as a drop in selling-price expectations, pointing to a slower transition of input costs into core inflation, Colijn notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
I filled myself with such hope and continued to cling to a silver lining, which seemed to disappear as rapidly as my desperation to cling to it increased.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
