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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
Naturally, the latter's lightsaber is a menacing red. Chris McMullen, Space.com, 11 July 2025 Friday's losses pushed the major averages into the red for the week. Lisa Kailai Han,tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for red
Recent Examples of Synonyms for red
Adjective
  • For the past few months, diners at the West Loop restaurant have received their bill with a glowing portrait of Sullivan, celebrating her appearance on the show.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
  • Poster Suite—the hotel’s crown jewel—dressed with a stately four-poster bed, a stylish lounge area (think long floral drapes, retro Roberts radios, regal armchairs, and historic prints of Haddon Hall), and a snug ensuite with a small bath tub and a glowing vanity mirror.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 16 July 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
  • Israel has stepped up strikes against Syria despite pressure from the US, which has made moves to end the country’s international isolation following the rebel takeover.
    Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
  • The Times of Israel reported that both ships were attacked over a week ago by the rebels as part of their campaign targeting vessels over the war in Gaza.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • During the Cold War, this was viewed as a threat to U.S. interests, and followers were branded as communists.
    Emi Eleode, Time, 14 July 2025
  • Sounds like something a red-blooded communist would say.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • In a searing rebuttal days before the British socialite was convicted for procuring victims for Epstein’s abuse in December 2021, Comey spoke to the perverted duo’s reasons for targeting teens from disadvantaged backgrounds.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
  • In a searing ruling against the Trump administration, a federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked federal agents from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests that advocates say have terrorized Angelenos, forced people into hiding and damaged the local economy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Prod: María Isabel Páramo, Iván García) One of the biggest swings among BAM projects, set in 1996 Colombia, as the country succumbs to bloody insurgent warfare.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • Delegates followed that recommendation, rejecting a number of insurgent candidates.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • But much like his lifelong comrade Ringo Starr – also still regularly on the road with his All-Starr Band – McCartney relishes sharing his incomparable catalog with fans.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • In contrast, Avilés benefitted from the support of DSA comrades in the Council with large social media presence, like Chi Ossé, who used his platform to overcome Avilés’ lack of charisma.
    Sara Forman, New York Daily News, 8 July 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 29 Jul. 2025.

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