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noun

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Recent Examples of red
Adjective
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Your Place or Mine, Knock at the Cabin, 80 for Brady and the kickoff of Grammy weekend events. Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2023 Keep reading for 9 trends seen on the runways and red carpets that everyone will be adopting soon. Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
Noun
What might stick out is the distinct color on the fire hydrant's front steamer port: either light blue, green, orange or red. David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 The pair walked the red—ahem—blue carpet together, with Rihanna in a baby blue ensemble on theme with the event. Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for red
Recent Examples of Synonyms for red
Adjective
  • The incoming and outgoing CEOs both had glowing words for each other on Tuesday.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 June 2025
  • Keeping skin soft, smooth, glowing—and protected against UV rays—should be at the top of your summer priority list.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • Yemen's Houthi rebels, aligned with Iran, have continued to launch attacks in the region despite the truce, including previous drone and missile strikes targeting Israel.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Young-il manages to separate from the group and betrays the rebels, killing two of them and faking his own death.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The Gestapo, or secret police, were often members of the Einsatzgruppen, essentially mobile killing squads who carried out the murders of Jews, Romani and communists in Eastern Europe.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025
  • Much of the story — about Murrow’s conflict with Senator Joseph McCarthy over his ongoing communist witch hunt — even played out on TV, via the anchor’s nightly newscasts.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • Pritzker’s speech, which occurred as national Democrats were largely leaderless in countering and criticizing Trump’s early chaotic presidential moves, aimed to fill the vacuum and garnered significant attention by offering a searing response to the president for a national audience.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • And first baseman Colby Thorndyke comes in with a searing swing.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The warning issue June 11 said terrorist and insurgent groups regularly attacked Iraqi security forces and civilians and anti-U.S. militias threatened U.S. citizens and international companies.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • The Iranian regime has held Americans hostage and supported terrorists and insurgents who have killed U.S. service members in Lebanon and Iraq.
    Reid Smith, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Hero Tanjiro Kamado, a boy who joined the Demon Slayer Corps after his younger sister Nezuko was transformed into a demon, finds himself and his Demon Slayer comrades inside the demons’ stronghold – the Infinity Castle, where the scene is set for the final battle between Corps and demons.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 June 2025
  • Since then, he has been contacted by several other Twins Platoon veterans and their relatives, amassing additional material that paints a more complete picture of his comrades’ wartime experiences, as well as their lives after Vietnam.
    Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • Warm Oak Cabinets Are Back—and More Modern Than Ever Best Wall Colors for Wood Cabinets with Red Undertones To balance ruddy brown tones in cherry and red oak cabinetry, designer Sarah Kahn Turner of Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath goes for warm, saturated colors tempered with gray.
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2025
  • For a star, which can emit light at essentially all colors, this means sometimes its red light is bent toward you and blue is bent away, so the star appears ruddy.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2025

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

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