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
The sketch also featured Tina Fey playing Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem with genuinely funny jokes: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C.: A brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
She was the only one who stood out, the only one who wasn’t pale with freckles and amber-colored red hair, the only dark brunette stain in every single family photo that lined the stairs.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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
“I introduced women with shape, short hair, brunettes, brown eyes,” he said in the Modelinia interview.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2013
And, speaking of dark, I knew he had a thing for dark-haired girls because all of his girlfriends had been brunettes.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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