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The artifacts — yellowing parchment with slight marks of stress at the edges and an intricately detailed stone tablet — are almost luminous under dim overhead lights at the exhibit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

It’s the moment of yellowing when lead starts becoming gold but isn’t gold yet.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

The rest of the yellowing is a sign not of bad hygiene but of natural teeth “within a range of normal for that age,” Taylor said.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2025

He found fault with Laila, the way she smelled, the way she dressed, the way she combed her hair, her yellowing teeth.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini