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  • noun Plural form of jade.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jade.

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Examples

  • The new Mei Moses Traditional Chinese Works of Art Index, which tracks repeat sale prices for more than 1,400 jades, painted screens and other artworks, has been on a tear.

    Chinese Appetite for Art Could Be Satiated Liam Denning 2011

  • Among the Han dynasty jades and Indian terra-cotta works in "The Horse," an exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, stands a contemporary piece showing a very personal bond between an artist and her horse.

    Turning Her Love for a Horse Into a Work of Art 2011

  • With every glimpse, every meeting of their eyes, those cool, kohl-rimmed jades bored into her, causing little electrodes to zip through her insides.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • With every glimpse, every meeting of their eyes, those cool, kohl-rimmed jades bored into her, causing little electrodes to zip through her insides.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • With every glimpse, every meeting of their eyes, those cool, kohl-rimmed jades bored into her, causing little electrodes to zip through her insides.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • There, she sources antique jades and turquoise stones for her handicraft.

    The Ultimate Expert Gift Guide 2010

  • Bronzes and jades in the sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui were made by peoples who were not mentioned in any early Chinese text.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • Yes, our perceptions really were this shallow and unshaped by the Internet and real-time journalism that jades us all today, and two, that this film broke apart the American paradigm and exposed its weaknesses.

    Over / Under: American Beauty « FirstShowing.net 2008

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