canvas
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The exhibit serves as a perfect canvas to include even more movie icons.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026
And Angèle is talented and well-known in Parisian beauty circles, but is beginning to feel that her canvas is the bare page, not a model’s bare face.
From Salon • Jun. 29, 2026
The canvas has been in myriad exhibitions of Freud’s works, with critic Martin Gayford writing that the portrait “outdoes Courbet’s ‘Bathers’ and similar performances from the past in sheer monumentality of physical presence.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
Sajith Pai of Blume Ventures, an early stage Indian start-up backer said Shah was getting an "even bigger canvas to paint his bold brushstrokes in".
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
In between sketching Allana Hastings, he kept his eyes open for flat, blank spaces, anywhere that could provide a larger canvas for his art.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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