yellow
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Aerial footage of the scene showed police investigators near a white SUV and several yellow evidence markers on the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Parts of the UK are set to enter a second week of temperatures above the heatwave threshold, with amber and yellow heat health alerts issued for between Sunday night and Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
At first glance, when it appeared that Embolo had fallen under a rough tackle, the referee initially issued a yellow card to Argentina’s Leandro Paredes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
As she walks Hollywood Boulevard, Gail adds new members to her crew, just as Dorothy does as she skips down the yellow brick road.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
I squinted at the garish green-striped bell-bottom pants and yellow knit top.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Russell insisted he had slowed sufficiently for the Verstappen incident, and said there was just a single yellow flag showing, rather than the double waved yellows which might have been expected for such a situation.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
On the wall behind the couch where clients sit, I hung a tapestry that features a sun rising over an abstract landscape of pinks and yellows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
Roughly 8 feet square, this dense frontal forest of figures—part human, part animal, part vegetal—in acidic blues, yellows and greens, is Cubist, Surrealist, Afro-Cuban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Not of the crowded corrals, but of the pretty West Side neighborhoods where wealthier Mexican families lived, their houses painted in yellows and oranges and pinks.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
As well as this, "he was just getting yellower and yellower", she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Removing the bluer light from the sun should make it look a bit 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
Only the yellower ones survived because they were more fit to survive the torrid weather.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
Not even the yellowest journals suggested that Banker Morgan was selling his pictures because he needed the money.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was dressed in a bright, large-figured calico, and from her ears were suspended the longest, yellowest, queerest, ear-rings.
From Captain Horace by May, Sophie
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
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
David's lounge is a riot of colour – on the floor of his living room are porcelain figurines, hundreds of yellowed newspapers and, balanced across the back of his settee, several thousand Barbie dolls.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
“My favorite researchers,” he said, his teeth strong and slightly yellowed, bared in a wide grin.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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
On the yellowing front page, 20 or so young Greenlanders smile, feet planted in the snow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
The rest of the yellowing is a sign not of bad hygiene but of natural teeth “within a range of normal for that age,” Taylor said.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025
However, I will say that the brittle and yellowing papers in the files constitute a fire hazard.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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