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Recent Examples of metallic
Custom metallic-textile curtains are used to help filter light and protect sensitive works, while allowing subtle changes throughout the day and seasons to shape the viewing experience.
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City News Service, Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
Known for its unique, thistle-like, metallic-blue flowers and spiky structural foliage, Nielsen notes that this stunning flower is a pollinator magnet, attracting bees, butterflies, and other beneficial species.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 16 Apr. 2026
The light green color featuring white-and-yellow flowers is bright and playful for spring, while metallic threading throughout gives this dress a more formal feel.
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2026
Posing along stars like Emma Roberts and Gabriette Bechtel, Taylor kept the metallic scheme going from head to toe with a pair of strappy silver heeled sandals.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026
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City News Service, Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
Known for its unique, thistle-like, metallic-blue flowers and spiky structural foliage, Nielsen notes that this stunning flower is a pollinator magnet, attracting bees, butterflies, and other beneficial species.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 16 Apr. 2026
The light green color featuring white-and-yellow flowers is bright and playful for spring, while metallic threading throughout gives this dress a more formal feel.
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2026
Posing along stars like Emma Roberts and Gabriette Bechtel, Taylor kept the metallic scheme going from head to toe with a pair of strappy silver heeled sandals.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metallic
Adjective
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The goal is clean skin, not squeaky skin.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Apr. 2026
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The goal is clean skin, not squeaky skin.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Removing strident nationalism, plus stable EU relations, a contrast with Orban’s tenure, will assist the nation’s economy.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Drayton Farley’s latest record may throw some of his most strident fans for a loop.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Leo arrived to a raucous welcome in Bamenda, where blasting music from loudspeakers gave the event a concert-like vibe.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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The Hornets won one of the biggest home games in franchise history Tuesday night, edging Miami, 127-126, in a raucous, controversial overtime contest played in front of their 16th straight sellout crowd in Charlotte.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
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Eisenberg plays a lot of acoustic guitar, sticks mostly to normie chords, and largely avoids dissonant tangles, opting for a bright, translucent sound.—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Brooklyn psych-folk artist’s 2025 debut, newly reissued by AD 93, is dissonant, ghostly, and otherworldly, summoning complex emotions with sparse tools.—
Vrinda Jagota,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The clashing worldviews of secularism and Christianity are not simply competing outlooks — as though one were merely better than the other.—
James O. Cunningham,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2026
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On his first album for his own Plastic & Sounds label, the Japanese producer sounds pricklier than ever, lacing hypnotic house and techno with microtonal dissonance and clashing textures.—
Maxie Younger,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In pansori, a vocalist delivers an epic tale by chanting in a raspy, guttural voice while accompanied by a drummer.—
Regina Kim,
Vanity Fair,
26 Feb. 2026
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Whether verbally snapping back at another raspy blow from Martha or whiningly sizing up and probing Nick as a professional and personal threat or just wheedling himself about the difficulties life has led him, Vaughn’s physical carriage is a venomous underdog on the go.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But when the real drama involving the pope is occurring thousands of miles and time zones away, being in the Vatican bubble is a somewhat jarring experience.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Five seconds of free fall Last week, the crew returned to Earth, enduring the jarring moment of reentry — the point at which the astronauts hit Earth’s thick inner atmosphere while their capsule was still traveling more than 30 times the speed of sound.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Metallic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metallic. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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