foreground
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The color is murky, the composition undeveloped, the foreground possibilities unutilized; often some element in the middle or remote distance is rendered in devoted detail to the disparagement of everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
As the supernova's light travels toward Earth, it passes by two galaxies in the foreground.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
Faith, family, and national identity — long central themes — have moved from the background to the foreground.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
And then I stumbled upon this car — the car that’s in the foreground of the painting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Power Prefix: fore-
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