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“A lot of people are calling and saying their cactus is yellowing really hard, fell over or like broken arms, that sort of thing,” Booth said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Here is yellowing photo evidence of a classic Kermit posable plush toy, the prize of what once was a teeming sculpture gallery of graven images.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2011

I'm told that the paper is yellowing and the handwriting, by now, is faint.

From Time • Sep. 16, 2010

Inland there is corn yet standing out; it is yellowing on the fields, which are here green and fresh as in the middle of spring.

From Norse Tales and Sketches by Kielland, Alexander Lange

This is all to prepare the way that is not the way to like anything that in speaking is telling what has come that like a swelling is inside when there is yellowing.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude