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noun

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Recent Examples of red
Adjective
In the images, Mendes sported a silky red dress complete with ‘80s power shoulders from the runway. Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025 The older Burnett would put on a top hat, a black suit, a red tie and a red handkerchief. Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
Deep and jewel-toned, Perry says that a striking crimson red makes for a perfect fall shade. Audrey Noble, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025 The moon will gradually shift from a bright silver to a deep red as Earth's shadow covers it. Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for red
Recent Examples of Synonyms for red
Adjective
  • The bookshelf opens to reveal a glowing path.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The reviews for this twist on classic Chicken Pot Pie are absolutely glowing.
    Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • The New York Times in 2015 reported that hundreds of Colombian mercenaries had been sent to Yemen to fight against the Houthi rebels, hired directly — and in secret — by the UAE.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Tapping into your inner rebel as of late, Sagittarius?
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The dead communist doesn’t live to regret underestimating Manville’s character, but others will — albeit less for her capability than for her willingness to fight back.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The nationalists and communists fell into an uneasy truce with the creation of the second united front in 1937.
    Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a significant battery life tax to pay for the microLED model’s searing brightness, too.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As the occupation wore on, the Iraqis became proficient at building roadside bombs in basements, garages, and other insurgent test kitchens spread across Baghdad and Anbar.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Edwards, along with protesting comrade Tom Hopper (Raife Hastings) and crass CIA contractor Jules Landry (Luke Hemsworth) join a secret CIA unit fighting terrorism in Europe.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Optimus Prime sends his comrade, B-127 (Dylan O'Brien), to Earth to await his arrival.
    Rendy Jones August 27, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Chester Arthur’s ruddy face is framed by lacy, drooping curtains.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • Jokes at their expense are easy and cheap, though each of these ruddy head wounds caps an individual story of insecurity and frail hope for more abundant days ahead.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 July 2025

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“Red.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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