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brunette

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /


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And when I started dressing again, to go out, I would put on my favorite clothes from when I was brunette.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

"I am returning to the big ice," the skater from Kazan announced on Telegram earlier this month, her formerly brunette hair now streaked with blonde highlights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 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

I am almost afraid to tell the little brunette that I am going away, and when I return we will be far from here; we will never see one another again.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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, 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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