matte
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Skinner recommends matte or sweat-proof SPF to help your make-up last longer.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
In one project, the couple saved several hundred dollars by spray-painting existing light fixtures matte black rather than replacing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
The three collaborated on the matte black, three-story binoculars, clad in black rubberized paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
I look for old- model vans painted in matte, their tires always bald.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The schoolhouse is a dull, matted red, as are other architectural elements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
To a matted poodle: “Sweet love, what are you?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
As erosion slows, marsh and streamside vegetation is rebounding and putting down densely matted root systems that can increasingly stand firm against flooding, or surging waves.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
In jail, they cut off his hair, which had been matted and infested with lice.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
There were no more sacks, only a pile of the straw, matted up in the corner nearest the door.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
Wearing skullcaps, about 60 kneeled in the sun on green matting spread over bits of scrubby brown vegetation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The agency also concluded that FF9 Pictures Ltd. failed to extend the crash matting “needed to mitigate the consequences of an unintended fall” after changes were made to the stunt sequence and set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
An England XI featuring Nasser Hussain and Alec Stewart lost by three runs chasing 177 in Amstelveen in 1989 on a sodden matting pitch.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Families pick the type of frame and matting and then a professional framer gets started.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
A strip of coconut-palm matting ran down the center of the wide hall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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