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Recent Examples of yellow Varieties include the early-blooming Solar Glow™, which produces red-orange blooms, and Solar Flare™ with yellow flowers accented in orange hues. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025 His new home was a three-story building with yellow and green balconies that overlooked the city. Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025 Small amounts of lower-energy red, orange, and yellow light get made, along with even smaller amounts of high-energy blue light. Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 The cocktail includes Pantalones Organic Blanco Tequila, Aperol, yellow chartreuse and fresh lime juice garnished with a lime wedge. Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yellow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yellow
Adjective
  • After long mornings at my father’s bedside, my mother and I arrived at Confiserie Sprüngli weary and afraid.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And while Parker wasn’t afraid of no ghosts, what about Huey Lewis’ lawyers?
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, many manga and anime publishers were scared to work with Hollywood.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There is no reason for this team, when playing complementary football, to be scared of anyone.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Japanese had cyclotrons but no nuclear lobby driven by frightened, concerned, or ambitious scientists.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Her parents were opposed to the Russian occupation but too frightened to talk about it.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This careful tiptoeing is probably because the scissor artwork was never meant to be sold at a wider scale.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 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
  • My candidacy is a symbol of the end of the weak-kneed, feckless Republican leadership of Mitch McConnell, and the spineless swamp jellyfish that are in the United States Senate representing the Republicans.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Because Republicans in Congress are spineless.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Shmi, who died for nothing, the cowardly Jedi refusing to free her, refusing to interfere.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • My cowardly stread ended today, however.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Missourians have the opportunity to put this craven power grab up for a vote.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • There are lots of good rebuttals to this craven move.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Yellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yellow. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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