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  • present participle of paint.
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painting

[peyn-ting] / ˈpeɪn tɪŋ /




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The tweens came down from Napa, Calif., to showcase their acrylic comic-strip painting featuring Mexican soccer player Alexis Vega, who channels his Mesoamerican ancestors when scoring the victory goal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Aside from learning to prepare lessons and navigate behavior issues, they complete activities similar to the children’s, including painting as well as outdoor play using toy hoops and bouncy balls.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

He painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, which still hangs in St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, and is the only painting Caravaggio ever signed.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

But rather than expanding into contemporary Korean art movements like Dansaekhwa, the show takes us back in time, showing off the depth and direction of Lee’s classical collection through exemplary ceramics, Buddhist art, and painting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

He told me to take up hobbies to distract myself, as he had done—hunting, oil painting, and so on.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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