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In a speech in February, Fed governor Christopher Waller put it more colorfully: “You don’t want banks every night … digging around the couch cushions looking for money. That is massively inefficient, stupid.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 18, 2026

After a 16-hour bus ride, Prapakaran removed his shoes, entered through a side door of the colorfully painted building and proceeded to the marble-floored inner sanctum.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2025

For the average person, any explanation about philosophers and physicists warring over the nature of consciousness — no matter how colorfully described — would probably sound like an embarrassingly low-stakes Ivory Tower slap fight.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2024

It’s an indication of the colorfully excessive ethos that Wingard brings to this loaded monster jam, overflowing with kaiju creatures.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2024

There were four of them, stuck together in perfect two-inch square, perforated tear-off foil packets that were colorfully labeled in glossy blue print.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith