brunette
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Brian was 6 feet 4 and a moppy-haired brunette musician with magnetic stage presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
It shows Yuriy, serious and composed besides Valeria, a brunette with an infectious smile who resembles her mother Lyudmyla.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
ChatGPT, perhaps drawing on data showing that there are far more dark-haired people in the world than blondes, decided to make her a brunette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
"Visconti wanted me brunette with long hair. Fellini wanted me blonde," Cardinale said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
“Look, you’re already a brunette anyway, right? So why don’t you let your hair grow out naturally and buy a blond wig?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
She now plays a somewhat wider range of characters — shrewd blondes, guileless brunettes — and she struggles less.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
Taylore told me the first thing she noticed was that “he was blond,” and she normally goes for brunettes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
“So far we’ve been able to find it for brunettes but we can’t get there for blondes and that’s the only chemical that I use. So we’re working on it.”
From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2019
His penchant for brunettes - Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, Yvonne De Carlo, Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue and Jean Peters, among others - could have stymied a witness at a police lineup.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
"And she knew I preferred brunettes," Auguste adds.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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