canvas
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There is every chance that the fight will end with one man on the canvas and, after then, my priority will be to console the loser first - I can't be jumping around celebrating.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
A canvas left out in the rain, given legs on the red carpet.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
“The main residence has brand-new Wolf appliances, including an induction range, refrigerator, and dishwasher. Custom new white oak hardwood flooring throughout is the canvas for your personal design statement,” the listing notes.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return,” which aired 18 episodes in 2017, was the most maximalist farewell imaginable, the kind of enormous canvas on which Lynch had always hoped to compose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
McNeish began refitting the twenty-two-foot-long Caird for the journey, decking it over with packing crate lids and canvas, and raising the sides.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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