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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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“I said if there’s a screw lying on the ground, take it, if there’s a canvas tent, take it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“A lot of people look at this as the last unpainted canvas in Los Angeles,” Perea said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The zeppelin’s enormous frame was constructed of a lightweight aluminum-copper alloy, covered with more than 300,000 square feet of sealed canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sandy-haired, brown-eyed, he wears a gray, full-length canvas duster.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting fakes bearing Warhol’s signature and shipping canvases resembling Warhol’s 1983 portfolio of endangered species to Roberts’s gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The intimacy of life and work are everywhere in the canvases, but Vermeer’s “sea of signs,” as Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it, resists reduction to narrative certainty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Additional blank canvases leaned against the wall nearby, beside shelves stocked with jars of paint.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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