silver lining
Example Sentences
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But there’s a silver lining to declining or flat home values: His property taxes have gone down by $1,000 per year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
“At the time, I had a very difficult time losing my community to the Eaton. I couldn’t find any hope or silver lining in the devastation,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The silver lining for Google investors was the company’s cloud unit, which recorded scorching revenue growth of 82%, fueled by insatiable demand for computing capacity for training and running AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
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
