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[yel-oh] / ˈjɛl oʊ /




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Two weeks earlier, the Patriot team rode in a yellow school bus without air conditioning on a 100-degree day to an away game at Ramona.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Under these conditions, fluorescence could create small green and cyan highlights against the salamanders' yellow markings, potentially making them easier for other salamanders to spot.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

In the driveway, next to a yellow pizza box, Litberg could be seen talking and signing to his workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

What do you have from “Back to the Future”? The loud yellow shirt I wore in the second film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

My yellow Converse sank into an inch of flattened hay, and my sundress did nothing to protect my legs from it tickling my calves and ankles.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

But seasoned leaf-peepers know that Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park and Shenandoah Valley are equally majestic places for autumn color, thanks to sugar maples, magnolias and more vegetation that erupts in fiery reds, oranges and yellows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the event, the Bottas incident, the FIA says, was "successfully managed by localised double yellows".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

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

It was October, and the hillsides were awash in oranges and yellows and reds and greens.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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

Many of the nation's rivers turn yellower in spring or summer as peaking rainfall muddies the waters.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2021

Her small toad-like face looked even yellower than the day before.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

At such times the stores wake up and put out their smartest calicoes and their yellowest saddles with which to tempt the wary Boer and Boeress.

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon

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

On one yellowed sleeve, he found a hand-drawn Rhythm-Aires logo, surrounded by a roll-call of friends nicknamed after their neighborhoods: “Kenny De Ontario,” “Victor De Pomona,” “Annie-Lara De Chino.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

It looked very much like what I’d seen of the rest of the courthouse, circa 1950 or so, with pecky linoleum tiles and paneling that was yellowed and sticky-looking with honey-colored varnish.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Symptoms include fever, weakness, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, yellowing of the skin or eyes, stomach pain, vomiting, dark urine, pale stools and diarrhea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

He nodded at the yellowing Daily Prophets on the cave floor, and Ron picked them up and unfolded them.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling


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