yellow
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So are the MetroCards, the small yellow magnetic cards emblematic of the city, which have recently been retired from use -- they sell for $6.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
I even spot a small yellow flower shooting up from the blackened ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
In the Indian capital, police—who were deployed starting before dawn—stopped vehicles and pedestrians at yellow metal barricades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The bright yellow coral, which has a branching, tree-like appearance, was discovered between 360 and 529 meters below the Pacific Ocean's surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
For another thing, its long yellow beak seemed to be attached to its head by a string that tied into a bow at the back.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Does the number of yellows match the number of fouls?
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Visitors can expect yellows and splashes of orange, with more flowers sprouting every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
His father reasoned that these people were looking for "the blacks and the blues and the greens and the yellows", but why not offer more than that?
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
There are three different shades of orange AND lots of reds and yellows so you can make your own orange.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
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If the sky looks blue, that could also make the sun look yellower.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023
Light bulbs with warmer or yellower tones are more suited to our circadian rhythm than bluer light — that’s why the “night” mode on your smartphone uses them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
It had red writing spelling out the brand name Velveeta, the cheese substance that, depending on your color sense, is either bold gold or yellower than school bus yellow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
In its crystalline form, sodium nitrite looks like a yellower cousin of table salt.
From Salon ● May 23, 2021
Her small toad-like face looked even yellower than the day before.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Mallory Ortberg: “Jeeves, bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.”
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017
Fishkill Farms has the best eggs with the yellowest yolks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The next-door people have a bird, The yellowest you ever heard!
From A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse by Mary Carolyn Davies
Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
They simply weren’t my taste anymore, and I didn’t like how the resin had yellowed over time.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
The paper had yellowed from age and the cursive was so ornate the words were hard to make out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Fruit stored at 30°C yellowed rapidly, while mangoes kept at 12°C maintained their color longer because chlorophyll breakdown slowed significantly.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
The color of the photo is brown and white, and it’s yellowed with old age.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
Symptoms of hepatitis A include fever, fatigue, stomach pain, nausea, a yellowing of the skin or eyes, and dark urine.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
Once he stopped and shifted it a little, and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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