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as in bright
having qualities which inspire hope
this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so don't blow it
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as in round
marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones
sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall
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as in thriving
marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically
the golden age of industrialization
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as in blond
of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color
a golden Labrador
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as in promising
pointing toward a happy outcome
that new job is a golden opportunity
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Recent Examples of golden
First purchase was beautiful golden orange ground turmeric.
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Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Carefully add tofu slabs to hot oil; fry until crispy and golden brown, 5-7 minutes, using tongs to flip tofu halfway through cook time.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
Bake on the middle rack of the heated oven until the top is puffed and lightly golden and a knife inserted into the center comes out clear, 25 to 30 minutes.
—Georgeanne Brennan, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
And during this golden era of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, few people were as enthusiastic about the weight room custom as the player who once served as the face of the franchise for an entire generation.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
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Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Carefully add tofu slabs to hot oil; fry until crispy and golden brown, 5-7 minutes, using tongs to flip tofu halfway through cook time.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
Bake on the middle rack of the heated oven until the top is puffed and lightly golden and a knife inserted into the center comes out clear, 25 to 30 minutes.
—Georgeanne Brennan, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
And during this golden era of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, few people were as enthusiastic about the weight room custom as the player who once served as the face of the franchise for an entire generation.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for golden
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This warmer weather refresh of chicken and biscuits shakes up both the filling and topping for a lighter and brighter take on the classic.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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For generations in Korea, people saved the milky water left over from rinsing rice and used it as a simple beauty treatment to make skin look brighter and smoother.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
22 Mar. 2026
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Women's Bracket Roundup Some of the first and second round women’s tournament games probably could’ve been called off by halftime.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
23 Mar. 2026
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Ryun Williams of the Colorado State Rams speaks to his team during the second quarter against the Michigan State Spartans during a first round game of the 2026 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament held at Lloyd Noble Center on March 20, 2026 in Norman, Oklahoma.—
Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Tushar Pandya, who transformed a small business area on Sauk Trail into a thriving multibusiness enterprise.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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From a thriving artisanal craft tradition to a slate of luxury hospitality openings, Mallorca has a lot to offer these days to debunk its onetime reputation as a bland resort outpost.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2026
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Ortiz appeared at the hearing behind glass in a custody area, wearing yellow jail clothes with her blond hair in braids, according to AP News.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Cyrus says, catching a glimpse of herself and her blond hair in a mirror on set, on her way to the fictional Miley Stewart's famous kitchen.—
Rebecca Cohen,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
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This was the approach that, a little more than a decade ago, surfaced a promising new kind of malaria drug that entered clinical trials first in South Africa and then in Ethiopia.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
22 Mar. 2026
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This work highlights a promising path for precisely tuning material stiffness and shaping mechanical properties on demand.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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The most optimistic forecast put them middle-of-the-pack at 15th while most others placed them somewhere in the 20s.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Lazar says even the most optimistic outlook for the rest of the season shows little chance of recovery.—
Callie Zanandrie,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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But Malema was convicted of hate speech for making threats last year, and his party won less than ten per cent of the national vote in the most recent South African election—hardly a ringing endorsement of his ideas.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Eric DeCosta, the Ravens general manager, said a couple of days ago that his phone was still ringing because teams are still willing to trade with him.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2026
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The convergence of Abundance centrists and conservative environmentalists would seem to belie the ACC’s assertion that the environmental movement is dominated by radicals who would rather sabotage the American economy than accept any of the compromises necessary to achieve a prosperous future.—
Gaby Del Valle,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps the most important thing to emerge through the great waves of legislation is not any one policy but a new set of ideas about what works in creating a more equal and prosperous society.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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