matte
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This makes it possible to switch between glossy and matte finishes, producing visual effects that surpass what current screens can achieve.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
For weeks, social-media feeds have been littered with decade-old images of matte makeup, Snapchat filters and skinny jeans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
They’ve been challenged to magnify a 4-foot matte painting of the arched hallway into the Wizard’s throne room — initially done in pastels on black cardboard — into a 240-foot-tall tableau.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.
From Salon • Jul. 10, 2025
She blinked and Bitter’s face came into focus, a piece at a time, the hard cheekbones, the bare eyebrows, the broad mouth pressed with a matte red.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
