silver
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“Investment across smart-grid infrastructure and data transmission supports silver demand, and we see AI as a growth source for the next several years,” said Trevor Yates, senior investment analyst at Global X ETFs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
He explained that gold and silver are, for most people, discretionary purchases — in other words, more of a want rather than a need.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Policy intervention can provide temporary relief, but there is no silver bullet for diesel,” analysts at Bank of America said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Gold and silver futures settled lower after U.S. consumer price inflation for September landed above estimates, increasing market expectations for a Fed interest-rate rise this month and pushing the U.S. dollar higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
They came in their hundreds, silver and white and pearl.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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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
American Jake Adicoff, who took two silvers behind McKeever in Beijing, will be hoping to make it to the top of the podium.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
But Gu, who now has three Olympic golds and three silvers in total, produced a dazzling performance in the second round to wow the judges.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Two hundred silvers is a drop in the bucket for him.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
He came back with a flagon erf pale amber wine and a small silvered looking glass in an ornate golden frame.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
"Tristran?" asked his father, who at five and thirty was still middling tall and still freckled, although there were more than a few silvering hairs in his nut-brown curls.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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