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aesthetic

[es-thet-ik, ees-] / ɛsˈθɛt ɪk, is- /
ADJECTIVE
beautiful
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"You can get everything you need...it is not confusing. It has got a cleaner aesthetic to it as well."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Yet even Bergman’s most schematic films—the ones in which ideas seem to drive him as much as mood, style or plot—make expressive use of cinema’s aesthetic vocabulary: light, composition, sometimes color, always sound or music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The unfussy, DIY aesthetic is immediately apparent, with an exterior clad entirely in plywood sheeting that has been painted and repainted several times over the decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Yet alongside that financial retreat, though, there is a more aesthetic refusal taking shape.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

My decorating aesthetic included a poster of the earth with the tagline "Save the Humans."

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Fisher designed a 5,000-square-foot studio and home that combines the aesthetics of a downtown artist’s loft and the comforts of a single-family home in the working-class enclave that still offered inexpensive land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Strength training is not about aesthetics or performance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

For women working in food, though, that question of authorship extends beyond aesthetics.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

This immersive installation, like the rest of the Lucas—built not on aesthetics but on nostalgia and spectacle—confuses a collector’s obsessions with genuine vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

My brother’s fashion sensibilities run more into the support-your-sports-team end of the aesthetics spectrum, whereas this guy is wearing a faded concert T-shirt under a fashionably loud plaid jacket and fitted, distressed jeans.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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