coif
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His famous coif might be styled to look some version of presentable on TV, but it’s not all that surprising that it looks a little thin from below.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2025
The appearance of Bankman-Fried, who sat with his lawyers, has changed dramatically recently as he has lost weight and trimmed his well-known wild coif into a tightly cropped look more traditional among financial professionals.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Bankman-Fried’s appearance has changed dramatically in recent months as he has lost weight and trimmed his well-known wild coif into a tightly cropped look more traditional in the world of finance.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Her eyebrows, narrowly arched, stood a shade darker against the short, soft coif of her hair.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2023
Even Penelope’s own hot-ironed coif was looking a little frizzy, as she talked nonstop about the movie.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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The film keeps pace with Elvis' changing coifs.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022
She was uncomfortable being tall, and the long, bouncing, curly brown hair that has become one of the most recognizable coifs in women’s basketball wasn’t so admired in high school.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022
The sisters epitomized a 1950s sensibility that held up a standard of unreal perfection, wearing identical coifs, dresses and smiles, moving with synchronized precision and blending voices in wholesome songs for simpler times.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2021
Kardashian wore the gown to the Hollywood Beauty Awards, where her escort, hairstylist Chris Appleton, was honored for his work styling the coifs of stars including Kardashian, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande, People noted.
From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2019
It gives me a twinge of sadness, of missing my mother, to see their colorful petticoats—indigo blue and saffron yellow—and white coifs.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Timotheé Chalamet's pale visage and perfectly coifed curls may be the face of the "Dune" franchise, but another powerhouse has emerged.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2024
Like Timothée Chalamet’s dashingly coifed hero — who steers monstrous sandworms over the desert like a charioteer — Villeneuve has tamed a Leviathan.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The couple — he dressed casually, she in heels and with neatly coifed hair — shopped together on Fridays for years, always picking out two steaks for dinner before checking out in Hechler’s lane.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
But she also walks into every room with her perfectly coifed head held high.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
Tee cringed and then rolled her eyes beneath her perfectly coifed pompadour.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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That means perfectly coiffed hair, stark white interiors with pops of color and, despite the era’s prevalent greenery, no extraneous plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Of the beautifully coiffed Patrick Mouratoglou, who coached Ms. Williams, the author writes, “don’t step between him and a television camera.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
His outsider model was adopted wholesale, including by the similarly coiffed Abelardo de la Espriella, whom a few Colombian commentators have jokingly dubbed the "Temu Bukele."
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
"We look for confidence in our achievements, our appearance, our accomplishments," intoned the perfectly coiffed and made-up Angela Halili on a recent episode of the "Girls Gone Bible" podcast.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
She wore a flowing, bright yellow dress, and her blonde hair was perfectly coiffed in a thick chignon.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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I pulled out my recorder as her blond curls bounced with the effortless ease of a superstar whose hairstylist had spent hours coiffing each individual curl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2021
If the world was really ending, it would probably sound a bit like your post-shower coiffing routine.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018
That was clear as Keisel plowed through the crowd with a microphone labeled “Head and Shoulders,” and asked deadpan questions of the various Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks about their coiffing habits.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2014
It's no wonder animals with names like Beast or Chappie get the farm version of luxury spa pampering - shelter from summer heat, baths with pricey shampoos and careful coiffing with electric razors.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2013
But often the problem was with the inmates—they could take forever with showering, shaving, and coiffing, trying to get together the perfect self-presentation.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Earring Magic Ken was Mattel’s attempt at making Ken cool by coifing his hair, piercing his left ear and adding a controversial necklace.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
None of the daughters are so fair as this, Nor stand with such a grace majestical; She in her locks is like the travelling sun, Setting, all clad in coifing clouds of gold.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
He looked coldly on the twenty-one celebrated pictures in which Le Brun had represented on the coifing of the gallery of Versailles the exploits of Lewis.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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