complexion
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Shudu has a tall, lean figure and an immaculate, glowing complexion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He immediately changed the complexion of the match, creating three attempts at the goal within five minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
It was a tactic which changed the complexion of the match.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
But whatever the complexion of the incoming Welsh government, it will face up to an ageing and potentially budget-draining legacy of health service buildings.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
He was the thinnest of her children and had a dark complexion like his father and brother.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
It is turning out to be quite the month for trade deals of various complexions.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
DEI has even forced the beauty industry, which has historically focused on products to suit Eurocentric complexions, to acknowledge that people of color buy makeup, too.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025
While melanoma may be found less frequently in people with darker complexions than fair ones, this potentially serious form of cancer can strike anyone.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
Germany’s 16 states, which have significant powers in many policy areas, have governments of many different political complexions.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
The heat of the tropics, the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had given them the complexions of newly washed plums.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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