acrylic
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A wooden Apple I case, a clear acrylic Macintosh, a large iPod prototype and other items from Apple’s past fill the room.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Much of the stuff of modern life, from nylon yarn to PVC pipes to acrylic paint, ultimately comes from fossil fuels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
She started at cosmetology school, but didn’t finish because the fumes from acrylic nails sent her to the hospital, she said.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025
A thousand small cylindrical acrylic mirrors planted in the sand compose a Morse code poem imagining a dialogue between Tangun, the legendary founder of the first Korean kingdom, and an Egyptian pharaoh.
From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025
Her mother’s hand is wrapped around her shoulder, and her father is pointing at her acrylic painting—an image of a house on a lake, with several geese dipping their toes into the water.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.