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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Levine started by poring over the canvas in granular detail, particularly what he could see of the signature: J. Schul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The early signs suggested Itauma had the measure of his opponent, with Hrgovic touching the canvas in the second round and conceding that he was "outboxed" early on.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Pantoja managed to take Van down to the canvas again and worked from the top for much of the round, showing that he could still trouble the champion when he managed to impose his style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Penelope looked at the canvas: the colors, the brushstrokes, the composition.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Renoir is celebrated for his light-dappled canvases capturing 19th-century European leisure, high society and timeless figurative studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

She is best known for her monochromatic abstract paintings evoking fishing nets, and for canvases and large spaces covered with polka dots, evoking hallucinations she had as a child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Marston continued painting, using his remaining paint and the lids of packing crates for canvases.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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