close-cropped
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The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
On TV, at town halls and universities, the bespectacled officer, with close-cropped gray hair and an almost professorial demeanor, lays out the stakes for his countrymen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
His salt-and-pepper hair is close-cropped like an athlete’s, “because it’s all falling out,” he laughed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025
He is balding with close-cropped hair and wears glasses.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2024
Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
