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A small sketch of Elon Musk lurks in the foreground, but she never so much as side-eyes its frame.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
A US military ship is seen in the foreground in the Arabian Sea in April.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
In the foreground is the inviting backyard of a middle-class home: sunlit green grass, a tool shed, a picnic table, but no people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s part of a broader change in Nolan’s telling: His Odysseus has far fewer sexual entanglements than Homer’s, keeping his devotion to Penelope more firmly in the foreground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In foreground, on a mountain, is an exultant human being.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Brown’s dreamlike visions of the climate and uniquely structured scenes—often with barely there foregrounds that emphasize the abstracted weather surrounding them—owe much to his mentor Ray Yoshida, as well as to Joseph Yoakum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Before the show resurfaces the internet’s favorite scary clown, it foregrounds the ways that small-town charm can be an effective mask for the mundane evils we confront every day.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
At the same time, many new diagnostic methods and early-intervention therapies have been developed in recent years, which foregrounds the need to identify more risk factors for the disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2023
It’s unfortunate that the actual march itself, dramatized with a wobbly mix of new and archival footage, should feel so truncated in a movie that inevitably foregrounds the man over the movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
The repeated “He,” has a sarcastic tone, and the hysteron proteron in the second sentence foregrounds this notion on which the argument turns: Is pride really a bad thing?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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