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silver

[sil-ver] / ˈsɪl vər /


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She won Team GB's first medal of the 2024 Paralympics with silver in the women's C1-3 3000m individual pursuit.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

And Katie Shanahan upgraded her 2022 Games bronze to silver in the 200m backstroke.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Front-month gold and silver futures both declined, with gold falling 2.4% to $4,046.50 a troy ounce and silver down 3.7% to $57.798/oz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The firm says that it now plans to add perps for more-traditional assets including gold, silver, and platinum.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Lloyd had burned a hole in his shirt the size of a silver dollar.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

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

"This is really the last time," said Sakamoto, who won singles bronze at the 2022 Beijing Games and has two silvers in the team event.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 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

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

One high status woman in her 20s with mixed ancestry was laid to rest near modern Cambridge under a prominent mound with silvered jewelry, amber beads, and a whole cow.

From Science Magazine Sep. 21, 2022

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

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

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

With his planed features and silvering hair, Mr. van Hove is perfectly nice to look at.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2015

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

He wears his silvering hair short on the sides and has a rainbow friendship bracelet tied around one wrist.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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