canvas
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They merely project modern anxieties onto the canvas of an imagined ancient Rome.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The grasslands and hillsides act as a vast, uncluttered canvas for their colors, which typically bloom in March and last through April.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Playing a confounding, cantankerous old painter who hasn’t touched a canvas in at least 20 years, Mr. McKellen delivers yet another marvelous late-career highlight.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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
Duane also didn’t know that the contraption standing beside the man was an easel, and the square of white sitting upon it was an empty canvas.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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