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noun

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Recent Examples of red
Adjective
The strawberry, red velvet, and carrot cakes are all longtime favorites of mine, but the Red & Black cake might be the most iconic—layers of chocolate and red velvet with cream cheese icing and fudge. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025 The museum has long been known as a treasure trove of movie memorabilia, including pre-cinema magic lanterns and Federico Fellini’s red scarf and letters. Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
Members of Spain’s royal family opted for suited attire, with Queen Letizia in a gray double-breasted look and daughters Leonor, Princess of Asturias, in navy and Infanta Sofía of Spain in vibrant red. Julia Teti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025 The result is a wine list that spans the globe, from velvety reds to crisp whites, including picks from Napa Valley’s Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Italy’s Marchesi Antinori, Chile’s VIK, Burgundy’s Albert Bichot Pouilly-Fuissé. Rachel Chang, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for red
Recent Examples of Synonyms for red
Adjective
  • In a surprising discovery, our team has detected glowing nickel vapor in the gas surrounding the incoming interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at an extraordinary distance from the sun, where temperatures remain far too cold for metals to normally vaporize.
    Darryl Seligman, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Generally speaking, the worse a cop behaves, the more glowing his job evaluations.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 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
  • Hegseth likened the Colombian rebel group to the al Qaeda terror group founded by Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
    Greg Norman , Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Romans were masters at using rewards and punishment to manage foreign states, from grants of citizenship to massacres of rebels.
    Barry Strauss, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Demobilized soldiers flocked to the paramilitary organizations that all major parties maintained, from the Nazi Stormtroopers (SA) to the conservative Steel Helmet League to the communists’ Red Front Fighters’ Association.
    Time, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Between 1950 and 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy's lists of communists were actually just targets.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The homey haunt, just a stone's throw from the shore, has served up many ice-cold beverages for tanned locals and sunburnt visitors alike.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Leo, hired as their lead guitarist, had the right look—rough around the edges, with long dark hair and tanned skin.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Its lighter, more delicate texture is best suited to baking, poaching, or searing.
    Rachael Zimlich, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Racking up enthusiastic reviews, Dave’s Hot Chicken has made a searing entry into the Boise market.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, some of his comrades don’t receive him warmly.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Red.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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