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Wilder was docked a point for pushing, and both men ended up on the canvas again in the 11th, though neither incident was ruled a knockdown.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

The fight continued and Wilder pushed Chisora over in the fifth before landing after the bell in the sixth, while both men tumbled to the canvas more than once.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

The Morgan Library & Museum puts the Baroque master’s early canvas in the context of his contemporaries and precursors, emphasizing his extraordinary naturalism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

We rode there on a Liberty Truck, jostling in the back under a canopy of canvas.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse