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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Out of 93 total professional fights in his career - 73 victories, 18 losses, and two draws - Chuvalo was never once knocked down to the canvas.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

But sports were such a ubiquitous part of their lives that, naturally, they became a canvas for conveying those lessons.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Writing a sci-fi twist on a tale of a “healing journey” allowed Benjamin to stretch her canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

“Welcome back, everybody!” said Mr. Lemoncello, addressing the contestants and the crowd from the second-floor balcony, where he was seated in a canvas director’s chair.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

Using shaped canvases and also experimenting with sculpture, the artist deployed boundary-pushing techniques that are represented by works spanning the entirety of his career.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Pet started walking around and looking through the rest of Bitter’s work—piles of drawings stacked on every flat surface, canvases layered and leaning against the walls, shelves full of small sculptures.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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