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Recent Examples of rose-colored Light poured down the long hallway, dimpled and rose-colored, the dust from the carpet rising and falling. Literary Hub, 23 June 2025 The more rose-colored put a soft focus on Vacationland nostalgia—a lobster roll for lunch at McLoons on Sprucehead Island, an art director's fantasy of coastal quaint. Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024 And for many Chinese, mostly those left behind by the country’s dramatic, gilded transformation since economic reform, memories of Mao-era social equality, the exaltation of the working classes, and a national sense of common purpose are increasingly rose-colored. Nick Frisch, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rose-colored
Adjective
  • Rooms around her, their doors still painted bright yellow from when the hotel was a boutique property, started to empty out.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The future is bright for this organization.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In early 2020, a bevy of new hypercars was announced—several promising at least 300 mph.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But for the millions of people bearing the brunt of housing deficits and the global housing mismatch, this sounds like a promising approach to partially tackling these issues.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That kind of novel feels a little too optimistic about the outcome of this kind of research.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement Svetlana’s optimistic pretend normalcy and Lyudmila’s practical approach to medication point to impossibility of fathoming the many crushing consequences of the Ukraine crisis.
    Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Wherever Walnut is a beautiful rosy nude that doesn't pull orange on me (my pet peeve).
    Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 3 Oct. 2025
  • So if believing that your rosy glow or struggles with heartburn make waiting to meet your baby a little bit easier to bear, then may these myths be around forever.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In a subtler interpretation of the trend, the Jazz bookshelf is handcrafted in oak that takes on a golden hue when hit with the right light.
    Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
  • And that way is with a golden buttery graham cracker crust.
    Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Rose-colored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rose-colored. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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