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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Online tools suffuse the modern classroom, requiring students to navigate Canvas and download readings from the school library.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Raj Sharma, global managing partner for Growth & Innovation at EY, has rolled out an agentic AI platform, called EY Canvas, to facilitate the company’s core global audit business, based on Microsoft AI products.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Meanwhile, The New School urged students and faculty to back up Canvas content while warning that the “global cybersecurity-related incident” was affecting schools worldwide.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

By late Thursday, the company Instructure, which owns Canvas, posted an update on its website saying that Canvas was "available for most users".

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Canvas sides are stretched over a metal frame, like dozens we saw crossing the border between Turkey and Syria at Bab al-Hawa.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell




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