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silvery

[sil-vuh-ree] / ˈsɪl və ri /
ADJECTIVE
argent
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“It’s annoyingly heavy,” Tenev said at one point, flashing his silvery card.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The statuesque Ms. Chapa wears a silvery unitard that bares her shoulders and arms to allow for winglike moments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

A few years ago, Mr Kim began to notice that the popular silvery hairtail fish he relied on were disappearing from local waters, and his earnings plunged by half.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Jeff Koons stood atop a construction lift and planted a small, silvery gray dudleya succulent on the nose of his monumental topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker” at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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