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Recent Examples of metallic
What a screwworm looks like Adult New World screwworms have orange eyes, a metallic blue or green body and three dark stripes across the back, according to the USDA.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
The black hue is classic, but the metallic champagne finish is equally chic.
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Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
26 June 2026
The result is a movement whose surfaces absorb and redirect light in alternating intensities, oscillating in an almost alchemical interplay of matte depth and metallic sheen as the wrist moves.
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Richard Mille Contributor,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Available in several colors, including black, blue, red, and metallic gray, these sandals offer the easy, slip-on convenience of a flip-flop with significantly more structure underfoot.
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Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
The black hue is classic, but the metallic champagne finish is equally chic.
—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
26 June 2026
The result is a movement whose surfaces absorb and redirect light in alternating intensities, oscillating in an almost alchemical interplay of matte depth and metallic sheen as the wrist moves.
—
Richard Mille Contributor,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Available in several colors, including black, blue, red, and metallic gray, these sandals offer the easy, slip-on convenience of a flip-flop with significantly more structure underfoot.
—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metallic
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On shrill winter nights, Moscow’s power is conspicuous, its Orthodox cathedrals and Stalinist high-rises illuminated, though the view falls dim in the autumn and spring, shrouded in sheets of greige.
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The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.
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During its brief existence, the Long Beach trio treated squeaky South Bay punk and bratty white-boy hip-hop as the unlikely boundaries of their sampledelic dirtbag reggae.
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Let the brush drip dry, then return it into its squeaky clean home.
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Football coverage can also often be dominated by ex-players, bluntly exchanging unnecessarily strident views.
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In a strident, aggressive veto message by Andrew Johnson.
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The energetic Ecuadoran team, bolstered by a goal and a raucous crowd, has been given new life in this game.
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The game’s meaninglessness didn’t matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium.
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At the track’s apex Korten explodes in and out of dissonant broken chords against Mark Shim’s angular saxophone lines, an unexpected development that sneaks up on you thanks to Sorey’s sticky, slowly evolving drumming.
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This is reminding me of watching Slint play a reunion show in 2014 under the I-65 highway at a festival in Louisville, and how simultaneously awesome and cognitively dissonant that experience was.
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The election follows Hockensmith's decision to step away from the board due to clashing personalities and policy choices.
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The clashing magnetic fields of a white dwarf star and its neighboring red dwarf star are the source of signals from space that have remained a puzzle for over 20 years, radio astronomers in Australia have found.
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The guitars and Tyler’s raspy vocals gain tone and weight.
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When the pair appeared on the debate stage in Atlanta, Biden alarmed Democrats as he, with a raspy voice, stumbled through many of his answers, often lost his train of thought and struggled to communicate his positions.
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That is why watching Ronaldo against DR Congo last Wednesday felt jarring.
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While go-arounds can feel jarring to passengers, they are still considered common and happen daily in the US, Michael McCormick, a former FAA air traffic manager and an associate professor in air traffic management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, previously told CNN.
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“Metallic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metallic. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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