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Recent Examples of yellow Either red or yellow maca will work here, but the flavor of the red is more mild. Anya Tchoupakov, Bon Appetit, 12 July 2017 The group recently wore matching black polos with yellow piping from the British brand, like some sort of unofficial uniform. Christine Flammia, Esquire, 10 July 2017 Layered yellow atop thick green strokes conjure up a bouquet without providing any detail. Anne Kniggendorf, kansascity.com, 3 July 2017 Ebony, 32, slipped the voucher back into its bright yellow folder and waited. Alden Woods, azcentral, 2 July 2017 See All Example Sentences for yellow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yellow
Adjective
  • Keep checking in with yourself, stay curious, and don’t be afraid to pivot.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Sydney Sweeney was not afraid to pull punches when playing real-life Christy Martin in the upcoming biopic about the boxer, which wrapped production last November.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • With no cell service or any experience with snakes, Wall was scared.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 19 June 2025
  • The story itself is stripped to bone and sinew: a sleepy New England beach town that wants tourist dollars more than truth, an invisible killer in plain water, and three men — one scared sheriff, one cocky scientist, one Ahab of a fisherman — set adrift to settle nature’s score.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, federal authorities are hiding, apparently too frightened of online provocateurs and in-person hecklers to do their duty in plain sight.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • Others who live close to the jail were downright frightened.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • For most, wealth results from years of hard work, careful planning, and disciplined saving.
    Georgette Virgo, USA Today, 19 June 2025
  • However, be careful of blurring the distinction between professional and personal relationships.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
  • The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • An erect, sprawling, and spineless cactus, the flowers are white, fragrant, and measure 12 inches long and 8 inches wide.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 June 2025
  • Some House Democrats have called their party spineless.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The only thing more despicable than his lies is his cowardly threat to 'take out' Iran's Supreme Leader.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
  • Those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable, and our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The disconnect between Trump’s stagings of brute force is striking and more than a little worrisome for those who have long thought civilian control of the military would have stopped such a craven choice.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 11 June 2025
  • To abet Trump’s fake reality, the craven House Republicans refused to put up a plaque honoring the police officers and others who defended the Capitol that awful day.
    Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 June 2025

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“Yellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yellow. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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