brunette
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"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
“People think I’m on drugs because of my appearance,” says Joe H., a lanky, long-haired brunette holding an electric guitar on his lap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
"Visconti wanted me brunette with long hair. Fellini wanted me blonde," Cardinale said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
He met his wife, Mary Lou, in 1956, brunette and pretty, wearing bobby socks at a fraternity mixer at Michigan State.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
This ongoing trend of obsessing over everything fall has to offer was first made popular by a viral photo of two brunettes with matching hairdos, makeup and suede booties.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023
“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
Or does he think the same of brunettes?
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
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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