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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Earlier in the evening, the venue staged its regular programme of Muay Thai bouts before staff stripped away the canvas and transformed the ring for Fury's boxing card.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Even on an early Tuesday afternoon in July, the brightly lit, bustling space hums with high energy as a lunchtime crowd of New Yorkers tightly navigates the narrow aisles with oversized canvas bags.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Some complained on social media that international tourists at Trader Joe’s were buying up all the mini canvas tote bags.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

My current favorite is a Roundup herbicide spot featuring actor Ed Quinn in the same kind of canvas trucker jacket worn by Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

On trailers, hidden under canvas sheets, lay R-12 rockets.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The intimacy of life and work are everywhere in the canvases, but Vermeer’s “sea of signs,” as Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it, resists reduction to narrative certainty.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Early in 2024, taggers began turning its skyscrapers into canvases for graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

But now that he’s rich, he can afford to smear real paint on canvases.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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