contour
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Yes, the contour palette is back, though Patrick says “no-makeup makeup” is still very much here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Sometimes they are used to contour or shape the nose or lips.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
The simple contour of a chapel, its steeple slightly off-center, stands out from the wall about six inches deep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Yeah, the Chinese government is definitely mining my data, but so is Mark Zuckerberg, and Zuckerberg’s Facebook never gave me the perfect step-by-step tutorial of how to contour my face for a truly flawless finish.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
A single contour line was interrupted by a printed number in microscopic type.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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For the new research, the team built a collection of silly sprinklers with different contours.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
To define the contours of that right, courts will look to history and tradition, just as Justice Samuel Alito did in Dobbs.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
An agreement hasn’t been finalized, and the contours of the arrangement could change, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Yet its broad contours remained unclear more than a day after the deal was announced, as each side offered conflicting public messaging about what had been agreed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Her fingers danced over valleys, rivers, the peaks of mountains, the contours of a new nation hidden beneath the old.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Lawyers for the guitar builders say the guitar was actually designed by a few people, who landed on the contoured shape for comfortability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
A towering performance that is also impressively contoured, Lithgow’s portrayal of dyspeptic British author Roald Dahl infuses Mark Rosenblatt’s drama with chilling mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
This hero was contoured and svelte, wealthy and suave, a Wall Street whiz and owner of land, a man who wore Brioni suits and a Cartier family heirloom watch.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023
Immaculately groomed and entirely self-possessed, Siobhan bestrides the world of public relations like an expertly contoured colossus.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
She raised her narrow, contoured eyebrows at me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Selfies were becoming more prevalent as social media grew, and standards of beauty hewed close to celebrity Kim Kardashian’s looks, especially in regards to eye makeup and products used for face contouring.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
But Mr Soldin says body contouring is largely seen as cosmetic surgery and a low priority for NHS managers who must decide how to use limited government funding.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
Skye concedes that writing a memoir is a challenge, but not so much emotionally as narratively — contouring the flow and storytelling with an editor’s sharp eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
In a follow-up article in November, the society said that because of the injectable drugs, the well-established link between “weight loss and body contouring is becoming ever more connected.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Now she brought out fake eyelashes, green shadow, black liner, base, contouring brushes, eyebrow pencil, coral gloss.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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