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sil·ver lin·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. silver lining, bright sidenoun

    a consoling aspect of a difficult situation

    "every cloud has a silver lining"; "look on the bright side of it"

Wiktionary

  1. silver liningnoun

    An unexpected good outcome; especially following some bad event.

  2. Etymology: Abbreviated form of the proverb every cloud has a silver lining

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  1. silver lining

    A silver lining refers to a positive or hopeful aspect found within a negative, difficult, or undesirable situation. It is based on the proverbial phrase "every cloud has a silver lining," suggesting that even in difficult or bad times, there is always something good or positive to be found.

Wikidata

  1. Silver Lining

    Silver Lining is the fourteenth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 2002.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of silver lining in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of silver lining in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of silver lining in a Sentence

  1. Lisa Fischer:

    The one silver lining is that the energy transition in Europe will accelerate as a result of this.

  2. Sean Matthews:

    We might've lost the house but we left with Memphis, and that meant more to us. I wanted to make the best of things and see the silver lining, and it is a humbling experience to leave your home with essentially a car and the clothes that you're wearing.

  3. Ty Burrell:

    I'm working on a couple of different things to be in, but I had intended to take about a year off from any kind of on-camera stuff, the silver lining is getting to have time with my family that I wasn't getting quite the same amount of before.

  4. Dawn Porter:

    If there's any silver lining in Texas making such an egregiously unconstitutional law, it's that I think people have woken up and people are thinking you can't taking any rights for granted, you cannot sleep on your rights.

  5. The New Zealander:

    I was a bit annoyed with The New Zealander last year because I didn't feel like I had raced to my best, knowing that I was only 0.3 second behind has a silver lining, because I knew that I could have been a couple of seconds faster.


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