canvas
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Bean’s “Boat and Tote” canvas bag, and Pidgeon carries it in the show.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
The fight continued and Wilder pushed Chisora over in the fifth before landing after the bell in the sixth, while both men tumbled to the canvas more than once.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
The artist’s intimate 1929 canvas, from her first stay in New Mexico, seems to gaze up at a towering tree with awe and fascination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Throughout the war, ground personnel lived in underground dugouts they built themselves, no more than trenches covered with logs and soil—or even just with canvas.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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